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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

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
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
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
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
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
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Anand Thakur
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
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
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust

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