I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEarly rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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A crier of green sauce.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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