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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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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
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
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
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
Appetite comes with eating.
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Appetite Eat One Liner
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
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
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
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
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Company Law Misery
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World

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