When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
FRANCOIS RABELAISMachination is worth more than force.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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Row on whatever happens.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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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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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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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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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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