We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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