Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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