It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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A crier of green sauce.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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