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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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