How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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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To laugh is proper to man.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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