Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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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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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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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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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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