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Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Francois Rabelais

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
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
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
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Hard Time Inspirational Patience Time
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
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
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
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
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
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue

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