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Few And Signally Blessed Are Those Whom Jupiter Has Destined To Be Cabbage-planters. For They've Always One Foot On The Ground Andthe Other Not Far From It. Anyone Is Welcome To Argue About Felicity And Supreme Happiness. But The Man Who Plants Cabbages I Now Positively Declare To Be The Happiest Of Mortals.

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.

He Who Has Not An Adventure Has Not Horse Or Mule, So Says Solomon.--who Is Too Adventurous, Said Echephron,--loses Horse And Mule.

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.

The Dress Does Not Make The Monk. [fr., L'habit Ne Fait Le Moine.]