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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

Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
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
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.
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Blessing Life Mortal
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
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
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
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
The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
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
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
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
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone

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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