Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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I build only living stones–men.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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