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A good intention does not mean honor.

Francois Rabelais

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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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
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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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
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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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
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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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Togetherness

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