Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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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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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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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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A crier of green sauce.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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