The appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch 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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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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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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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