We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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