Never did a great man hate good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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