A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe dress does not make the monk.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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I build only living stones–men.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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