Appetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Row on whatever happens.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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