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A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.

Francois Rabelais

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
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
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
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
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
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
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
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
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
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Effort Hard Work Inspirational Known
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
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 farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Anand Thakur

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