We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBut where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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A crier of green sauce.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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I build only living stones–men.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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