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

Francois Rabelais

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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
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
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
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
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Greatness Myself Seek

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