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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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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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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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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait Ease my Mind, and speak my Fate.
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