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Francois Rabelais

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
Appetite comes with eating.
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Appetite Eat One Liner
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
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
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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Beginning Breathe Strength War
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
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
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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