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If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

Francois Rabelais

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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
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
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
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
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
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
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
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
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

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

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