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

Francois Rabelais

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Bite Dog Run Yourself
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Command Myself Power Rule
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Leave Myself Poor
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hunger Strength
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hot Iron Strike
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
To laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Himself Man Worth
I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Build Live Man Stone
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish

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