How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISDebts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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Death is the vast perhaps.
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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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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