Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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