Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDeath is the vast perhaps.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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