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You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Francois Rabelais

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth
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
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
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Anand Thakur
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
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
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
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
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
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Anand Thakur
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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Anand Thakur
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur

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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