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Hungry bellies have no ears.

Francois Rabelais

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
I’d gladly do without a valet. I’m never so well treated as when I’m without a valet.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Myself Treat
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Forever Myself
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
Hungry bellies have no ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe Ear Hungry
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Greatness Myself Seek
Appetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Appetite Eat One Liner
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Battle Coin Force War
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Court France Nurse

Hungry bellies have no ears.

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