Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDeath is the vast perhaps.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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 have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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