One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature abhors a vacuum.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Machination is worth more than force.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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