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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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