Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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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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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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