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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Francois Rabelais

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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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
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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Beginning Breathe Strength War
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
Don’t limp in front of the lame.
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Lame One Liner
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
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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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman

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