We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWe always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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Time, 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.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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If 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.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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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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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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