I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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