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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

Francois Rabelais

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
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
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
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Drink Old Physician
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
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

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

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