It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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