How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISStrike the iron whilst it is hot.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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