In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places, from everybody, than to work and win.

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places, from everybody, than to work and win.

Rabelais · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 429

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

Time, which gnaws and diminishes all things else, augments and increases benefits, because a noble action of liberality done to a man of reason doth grow continually by his generously thinking of it and remembering it.

Rabelais · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 345

Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.

In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.

Rabelais · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 574