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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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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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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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If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
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