I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAISTime, 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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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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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 am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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The dress does not make the monk.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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