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 RABELAISWhen undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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 am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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