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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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.
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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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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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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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
Francois Rabelais
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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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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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Francois Rabelais
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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