Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A habit does not a monk make.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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