Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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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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