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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

Francois Rabelais

Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
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
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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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
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
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Anand Thakur
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
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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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
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
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

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