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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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