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Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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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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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
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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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