No clock is more regular than the belly.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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