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Francois Rabelais

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 won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
War 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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Beginning Breathe Strength War
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Command Myself Power Rule
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.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
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
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Anand Thakur
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner

Plain as a nose in a man’s face.

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