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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere 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 said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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