What did François Rabelais mean by: Between two stools one sits on the ground. François Rabelais Author · France Copy
+ I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor. Author, November 4, 2023January 2, 2025, François Rabelais, Generosity, Gratitude, Poverty, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
+ How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself? Author, August 16, 2023January 2, 2025, François Rabelais, Leadership, Responsibility, Self-awareness, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
+ Bring down the curtain, the farce is over Author, September 4, 2023January 2, 2025, François Rabelais, Deception, Endings, Finality, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, François Rabelais, Appetite, Consumption, Thirst, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
+ I never drink without a thirst, either present or future. Author, August 11, 2023January 2, 2025, François Rabelais, Future, Moderation, Thirst, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der). Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, François Rabelais, Celebration, Perseverance, Resilience, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
+ So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. Author, July 28, 2023January 2, 2025, François Rabelais, Esteem, Self-worth, Value, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, François Rabelais, Loss, Mortality., Nostalgia, 0 François Rabelais Author · France
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself. Read explanation Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness. [Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.] Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France