He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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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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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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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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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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We will take the good-will for the deed.
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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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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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I build only living stones–men.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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