Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Nature 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.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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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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