I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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