I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Row on whatever happens.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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