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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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Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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