I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEverything comes in time to those who can wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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