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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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  Art, War, Military

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

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  Mirrors, Stupidity, Want

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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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• Frugality is for the vulgar.

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  Vulgar, Frugality

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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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• I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.

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  Education, Youth, Study

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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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• I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

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  Sleep, Praying, I Pray To God

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 716-21, Gargantua, Book I, Chapter XLI, 1922.

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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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• How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

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

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  Clauses

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• An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

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  Hypocrisy, Monkeys, Faces

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• Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

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  Iron, Hot, Strikes

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.361, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• 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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• 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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• Plain as a nose in a man's face.

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  Men, Noses, Faces

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Fall, Two, Trying

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• In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

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  Life, Blessed, Mortals

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• Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

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  Funny, Farce, Curtains

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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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  Knowledge, Mittens, Slippers

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