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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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He that has patience may compass anything.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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 have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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