An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI drink no more than a sponge.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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