A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISYou have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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 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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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