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

Francois Rabelais

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Hard Time Inspirational Patience Time
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom

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