How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
François Rabelais
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
innocence
Looking as like - as one pea does like another
appearance
Debts and lies are generally mixed together
lies debt
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
desire things forbidden
The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
evil devil sick
I drink no more than a sponge
drinking drink
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
man charm good violence prayer guns
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
strength money war
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
money thetimes time
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
peace war art
Corn is the sinews of war.
war
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
truth thetimes time
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
truth
Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.
rules power
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