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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.
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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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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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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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