An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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