I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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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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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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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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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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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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