I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAISGiving words is an act of lovers.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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