How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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