I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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