I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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