How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAISLet every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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