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I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Francois Rabelais

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.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time
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
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
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Born Future God Impossible Woman
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Foolish Present Wisdom
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
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
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
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
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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Anand Thakur
A habit does not a monk make.
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Habit Monk One Liner

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