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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Chinon-sur-Vienne
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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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Machination is worth more than force.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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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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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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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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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]
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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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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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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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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
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