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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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Chinon-sur-Vienne
Francois Rabelais
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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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I drink no more than a sponge.
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Appetite comes with eating.
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A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries, I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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