Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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