If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
FRANCOIS RABELAISWhen undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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If 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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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