One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Row on whatever happens.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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