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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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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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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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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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