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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

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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
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
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 scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
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Agreement Celestial Prayer Scent Wine
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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