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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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Francois Rabelais
Died: 1553
Died: April 9
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Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
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I owe much I have nothing the rest I leave to the poor.
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How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?
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I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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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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Early rising is no pleasure early drinking's just the measure.
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To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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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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We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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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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Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]
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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.
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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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No clock is more regular than the belly.
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