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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.
Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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I drink for the thirst to come.
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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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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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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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Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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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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A habit does not a monk make.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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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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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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