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Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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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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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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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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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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