In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHe who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Hungry bellies have no ears.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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