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Francois Rabelais

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Old Physician
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
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
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
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
Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself

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