I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI 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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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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Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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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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I build only living stones–men.
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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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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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If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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A crier of green sauce.
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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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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Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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