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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A good intention does not mean honor.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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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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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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The appetite grows with eating.
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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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