The dress does not make the monk.
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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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