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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.

Francois Rabelais

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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
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
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
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
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Agreement Celestial Prayer Scent Wine
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Togetherness
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
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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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
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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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
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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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
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
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth

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