You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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