It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEverything comes in time to those who can wait.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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