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Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
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
I drink for the thirst to come.
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Drink Myself Thirst
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
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Growth Heaven Thankful
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
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
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Avoid Break Mirror See
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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Bite Dog Run Yourself
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
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
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
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

Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

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