If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIgnorance is the mother of all evils.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Row on whatever happens.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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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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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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