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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.

Francois Rabelais

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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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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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I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Machination is worth more than force.
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]
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Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here, drinking, I deliberate, I reason, I resolve and conclude. After the epilogue I laugh, I write, I compose, I drink. Ennius drinking would write, writing would drink.
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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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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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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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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He that has patience may compass anything.
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