No noble man ever hated good wine.
FRANCOIS RABELAISOh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Time, 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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Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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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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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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