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

Francois Rabelais

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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
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
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Such 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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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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