It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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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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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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