I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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