A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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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 scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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