Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWar begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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