Hungry bellies have no ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTo good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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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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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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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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