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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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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 man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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