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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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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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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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