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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.

Francois Rabelais

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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
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
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
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
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
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
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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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
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

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