Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrom the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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