When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I build only living stones–men.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Because 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.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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