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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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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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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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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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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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