Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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