I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Because 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.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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