Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Row on whatever happens.
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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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