A habit does not a monk make.
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 drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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