I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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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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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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