Francois Rabelais Quotes
A major French Renaissance writer, doctor and Renaissance humanist.
(1494 - 1553)
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
[World]
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He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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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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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
[Sleep]
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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