Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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