No noble man ever hated good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBecause 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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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 drink no more than a sponge.
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