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Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Francois Rabelais

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
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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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
Such 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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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public

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