How shall I be able to rule over others,... | Francois Rabelais

Power

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

- Francois Rabelais

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Time Man

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

Will

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

A bellyful is a bellyful.

- Francois Rabelais

First

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

- Francois Rabelais

I drink no more than a sponge.

- Francois Rabelais

Wine

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

- Francois Rabelais

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Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

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In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

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Hope Freedom Power

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

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Now Power

Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America.

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May Power Years

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

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Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

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