Of a young hermit, an old devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFor God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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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.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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