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Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

Francois Rabelais

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
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 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
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
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
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 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
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
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
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
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 good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
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

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