Appetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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