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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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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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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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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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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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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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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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It's a shame to be called educated those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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