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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.

Francois Rabelais

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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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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
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
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Agreement Celestial Prayer Scent Wine
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
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
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
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
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike

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