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Francois Rabelais Inspirational Quotes (100)

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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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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.
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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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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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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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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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.
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