Machination is worth more than force.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I build only living stones–men.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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