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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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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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.
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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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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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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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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
Francois Rabelais
The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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