I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBelieve me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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