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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Don't limp in front of the lame.
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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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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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