We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Row on whatever happens.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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