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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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