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If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

Francois Rabelais

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
To laugh is proper to 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
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
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
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

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