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No clock is more regular than the belly.

Francois Rabelais

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
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
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
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Fear Goodness Love Relationship True
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
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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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman

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