Francois Rabelais - From the Desire category:
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Difficulty category:
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Drunkenness category:
I drink no more than a sponge. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Drunkenness category:
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Habit category:
A habit does not a monk make. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Hope category:
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Humour category:
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Indolence category:
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Innocence category:
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Knowledge category:
Ignorance is the mother of all evils. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Leadership category:
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Love category:
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Money category:
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Nature category:
Nature abhors a vacuum. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Obligation category:
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Opportunity category:
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Opposites category:
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. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Patience category:
Everything comes in time to those who can wait. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Questions category:
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise? (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Rules category:
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Satisfaction category:
A bellyful is a bellyful. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Searching category:
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Time category:
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Unknowns category:
Half the world does not know how the other half lives. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Wisdom category:
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. (Francois Rabelais)
Francois Rabelais - From the Words category:
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words. (Francois Rabelais)
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