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How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?

Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Command Myself Power Rule
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
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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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
A habit does not a monk make.
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Habit Monk One Liner
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Anand Thakur
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Attractive Love Value Word

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