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François Rabelais

“A bellyful is a bellyful.”

- François Rabelais

Source/Notes: Complete sentence: "So full I had filled my puddings before, and a bellyful is a bellyful you know." Source: The Works of Francis Rabelais, Volume 2 (1851 edition), p. 472, "Pantagruel - Chapter XXIII"
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François Rabelais

“A habit does not a monk make.”

- François Rabelais

Source/Notes: In French: "L'habit ne fait pas le moine". It's quoted as a proverb on "Oeuvres de François Rabelais, Volume 2", p. 495
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François Rabelais

“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.”

- François Rabelais

Source/Notes: Gargantua, Chapter XXIX, "The tenor of the letter which Grangousier wrote to his son Gargantua".
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François Rabelais

“Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.”

- François Rabelais

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“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”

- François Rabelais

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“Everything comes in time to those who can wait.”

- François Rabelais

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“For he who can wait, everything comes in time.”

- François Rabelais

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François Rabelais

“Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.”

- François Rabelais

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“From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.”

- François Rabelais

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“Frugality is for the vulgar.”

- François Rabelais

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“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”

- François Rabelais

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“Half the world does not know how the other half lives.”

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“How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?”

- François Rabelais

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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?”

- François Rabelais

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