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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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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe that has patience may compass anything.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOf a young hermit, an old devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNature abhors a vacuum.
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAll’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAISEarly rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAppetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIndeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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