If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A crier of green sauce.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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