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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Anand Thakur
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
FRANCOIS RABELAISMachination is worth more than force.
FRANCOIS RABELAISNo clock is more regular than the belly.
FRANCOIS RABELAISBecause 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 RABELAISI build only living stones–men.
FRANCOIS RABELAISGestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA habit does not a monk make.
FRANCOIS RABELAISScience sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf 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 RABELAISI won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIt is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThere are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAISAgainst fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWar begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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