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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?
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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