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Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all–both old and young.
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Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
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Friendship Man Notice Remember
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
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
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
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
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.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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Avoid Break Children Fools Mirror See
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
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Mindset Wisdom
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
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep

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