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 RABELAISThere is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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