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The dress does not make the monk.

Francois Rabelais

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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
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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Growth Heaven Thankful
You 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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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
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
I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well

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