Don’t limp in front of the lame.
FRANCOIS RABELAISPantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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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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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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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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Death is the vast perhaps.
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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