Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
FRANCOIS RABELAISMachination is worth more than force.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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