Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois Rabelais

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Everything comes in time to those who can wait. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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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. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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To good and true love fear is forever affixed. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Francois 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? ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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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. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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