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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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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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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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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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