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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Francois Rabelais

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
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
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
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
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
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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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
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
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Anand Thakur

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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