Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe 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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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