I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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