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I am going to seek a great perhaps.

Francois Rabelais

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

Avoid Break Mirror See
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Art Peace Try War
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Forever Myself
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Conscience Ruin Science Soul
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hunger Strength
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Growth Heaven Thankful

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