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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

Francois Rabelais

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
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
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
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Myself Treat
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
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
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Drink Old Physician
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.
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Concern Greatness Poet Snow
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
An old monkey never makes a pretty face.
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Face Monkey Old
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
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

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