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I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Francois Rabelais

Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Growth Heaven Thankful
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself

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