Of a young hermit, an old devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHungry bellies have no ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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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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