How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISBecause 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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