He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Machination is worth more than force.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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