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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

Francois Rabelais

How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
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
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
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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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Agreement Celestial Prayer Scent Wine
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Fear Goodness Love Relationship True
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Company Law Misery
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
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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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

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