Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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