The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Anand Thakur
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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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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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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 the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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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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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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