How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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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A habit does not a monk make.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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