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

Francois Rabelais

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
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
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
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
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
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
Hungry bellies have no ears.
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Believe Ear Hungry
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
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
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Freedom Power Rule Willing
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
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Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.
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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
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
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Command Myself Power Rule
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
He that has patience may compass anything.
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Anand Thakur
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
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
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty

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