There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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 never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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