A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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