Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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