I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHungry bellies have no ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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