A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
More Francois Rabelais Quotes
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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A good intention does not mean honor.
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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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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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