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• Machination is worth more than force.

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  Deceit, Force

  "Pantagruel" by François Rabelais, ch. XXVII, 1532.

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• It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

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  Greek, Study, Ancient

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• There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

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  Men, Charity, Vexation

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• How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?

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  Wise, Foolish, Made

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• In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

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  Clauses

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• If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

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  Attitude, Fall, Opportunity

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• No noble man ever hated good wine.

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  Wine, Men, Noble Man

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• If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Stupidity, Want

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• I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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  Money, Famous Last Words, Poor

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• Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

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  Drinking, Food, Eating

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• Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

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  Doe, Half, World

  "Pantagruel". Book by François Rabelais (chapter XXXII), 1532.

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• Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

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  Lying, Together, Debt

  "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.

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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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  Running, Dog, Opposites

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• One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

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  Fall, Two, Trying

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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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  Happiness, Laughter, Writing

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• No clock is more regular than the belly.

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  Hunger, Clock, Belly

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• I am going to seek a great perhaps.

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  Last Words

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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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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  God, Faith, Giving

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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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  Good Luck, Upset, Hazards

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• Don't limp in front of the lame.

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  Lame, Decorum, Fronts

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• I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

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  Art, War, Mean

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• It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

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  Doctors, Disease, Way

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• Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

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  Believe, Heroic, Stewardship

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• The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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  Hair, Moments, Missed You

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