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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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