Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
FRANCOIS RABELAISCan there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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 drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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