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Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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