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“We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Long Quotes
#Desire Quotes
#Forbidden Things Quotes
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“It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Time Quotes
#Father Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
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“The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!”
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Francois Rabelais
#Wine Quotes
#Oil Quotes
#Laughing Quotes
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“Everything comes in time to those who can wait.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Time Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
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“To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Fear Quotes
#Forever Quotes
#Fear Of Love Quotes
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“When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Drinking Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Drink Quotes
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“There are more old drunkards than old physicians.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Drinking Quotes
#Physicians Quotes
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“If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror”
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Francois Rabelais
#Humility Quotes
#Mirrors Quotes
#Wish Quotes
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“I do not drink more than a sponge.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Beer Quotes
#Drink Quotes
#Sponges Quotes
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“I drink no more than a sponge.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Beer Quotes
#Drink Quotes
#Sponges Quotes
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“A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Children Quotes
#Fire Quotes
#Vases Quotes
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“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Men Quotes
#Esteem Quotes
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“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Attitude Quotes
#Fall Quotes
#Opportunity Quotes
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“He that has patience may compass anything.”
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Francois Rabelais
#May Quotes
#Compass Quotes
#Having Patience Quotes
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“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”
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Francois Rabelais
Source : "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.
#Lying Quotes
#Together Quotes
#Debt Quotes
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“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Love Quotes
#Marriage Quotes
#Gestures Quotes
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“A habit does not a monk make.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Doe Quotes
#Monk Quotes
#Habit Quotes
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“Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Philosophical Quotes
#Hazards Quotes
#Spirit Quotes
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“Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Arbitrary Quotes
#Language Quotes
#Pleasure Quotes
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“I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Drinking Quotes
#Drink Quotes
#Eternity Quotes
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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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Francois Rabelais
#Wise Quotes
#Reading Quotes
#Amusement Quotes
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“Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Wish Quotes
#Debtors Quotes
#Creditors Quotes
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“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Christian Quotes
#Nurse Quotes
#Religion Quotes
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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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Francois Rabelais
#God Quotes
#Wisdom Quotes
#Evil Quotes
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“Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Faith Quotes
#Silly Quotes
#Player Quotes
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“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Order Quotes
#Arrogance Quotes
#Desire Quotes
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“Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.”
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Francois Rabelais
#Wisdom Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Names Quotes
