The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
FRANCOIS RABELAISSuch is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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