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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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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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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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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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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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