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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

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Forbidden God Myself Trust
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Rain Wind
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Command Myself Power Rule
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
Nature abhors a vacuum.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Nature One Liner
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Avoid Break Mirror See
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Around Head Missing Moments Right
We will take the good-will for the deed.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Acceptance Goodness Will
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Doctor Happiness Sick Way

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