Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISLet every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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