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

Francois Rabelais

I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
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
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
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
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
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
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Drink Old Physician
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Anand Thakur
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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Hot Iron Strike
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
Frugality is for the vulgar.
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One Liner Vulgar
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time

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

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