The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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