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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.

Francois Rabelais

I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
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
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
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
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
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
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
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

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