I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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