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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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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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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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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend to owe is a heroic virtue.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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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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