Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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