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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?

Francois Rabelais

Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Anand Thakur
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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Foolish Present Wisdom
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
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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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking

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