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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
Clergyman
Monk
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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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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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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 drink no more than a sponge.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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