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

Francois Rabelais

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
Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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Evil Ignorance Mother
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
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
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
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
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Nature One Liner
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust
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
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
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
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

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