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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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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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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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