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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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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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The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]
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So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
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If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Never did a great man hate good wine.
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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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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.
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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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