Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Row on whatever happens.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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