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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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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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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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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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Plain as a nose in a man's face.
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Always open all gates and roads to your enemies, and rather make for them a bridge of silver, to get rid of them. [Fr., Ouvrez toujours a vos ennemis toutes les portes et chemin, et plutot leur faites un pont d'argent, afin de les renvoyer.]
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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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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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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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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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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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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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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