Machination is worth more than force.
FRANCOIS RABELAISStrike the iron whilst it is hot.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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