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A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

Francois Rabelais

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
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
To laugh is proper to man.
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Anand Thakur
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run 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
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Company Law Misery
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
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
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Togetherness
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust
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
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
The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur

A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.

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