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

Francois Rabelais

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Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
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Greatness Myself Seek
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
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
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
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
Oh thrice and four times happy, those who plant cabbages.
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Happiness Plant Time
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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Grand One Liner Seek
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
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
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
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed.
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Fear Goodness Love Relationship True
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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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
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
Never did a great man hate good wine.
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Goodness Greatness Hate Man Wine
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
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
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

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