If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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