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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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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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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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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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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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