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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?

Francois Rabelais

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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
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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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
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

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