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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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 dress does not make the monk.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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