Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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A habit does not a monk make.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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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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The dress does not make the monk.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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