When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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 man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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