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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

Francois Rabelais

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hot Iron Strike
I build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Build Live Man Stone
The appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Appetite Eat
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Rain Wind
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Born Future God Impossible Woman
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Fear Goodness Love Relationship True
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Doctor Happiness Sick Way
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Battle Coin Force War
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hunger Strength
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Happiness Plant Time

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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