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If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries, I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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