One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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