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Nature abhors a vacuum.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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