Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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