One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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I build only living stones–men.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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