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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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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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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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All things have their ends and cycles. And when they have reached their highest point, they are in their lowest ruin, for they cannot last for long in such a state. Such is the end for those who cannot moderate their fortune and prosperity with reason and temperance.
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If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries, I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
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