One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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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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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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