French - Clergyman | 1493 - April 9, 1553
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
Francois Rabelais
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Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
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Frugality is for the vulgar.
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A habit does not a monk make.
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Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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