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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

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
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
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
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Around Head Missing Moments Right
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Hard Time Inspirational Patience Time
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
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Togetherness
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
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Monk Public

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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