When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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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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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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