Death is the vast perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOf a young hermit, an old devil.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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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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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Row on whatever happens.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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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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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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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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Appetite comes with eating.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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