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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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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 have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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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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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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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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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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