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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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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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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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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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War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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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 owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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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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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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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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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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Giving words [is] an act of lovers.
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Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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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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