It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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A crier of green sauce.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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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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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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