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.
FRANCOIS RABELAISYou have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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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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There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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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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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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