How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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