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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.

Francois Rabelais

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Leave Myself Poor
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
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
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
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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Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Forever Myself

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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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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