"How can I govern others, who can't even…" — Francois Rabelais
"How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?"
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80 Quotes by Francois Rabelais
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- I do not drink more than a sponge.
- I drink no more than a sponge.
- I drink for the thirst to come.
- Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
- Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
- Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
- A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
- I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
- So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
- Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
- It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.