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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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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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 right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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If you wish to be good Pantagruelists (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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