A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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