A good intention does not mean honor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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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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