Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
FRANCOIS RABELAISMachination is worth more than force.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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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A crier of green sauce.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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 war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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