It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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