We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHungry bellies have no ears.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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