I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne 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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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