He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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I build only living stones–men.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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