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There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

Francois Rabelais

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
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
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing

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