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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?

Francois Rabelais

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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Anand Thakur
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar

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