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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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Between two stools one sits on the ground.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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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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A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
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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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All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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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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