There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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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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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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