The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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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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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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He 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 dress does not make the monk.
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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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