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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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