There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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