Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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