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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

Francois Rabelais

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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Attractive Love Value Word
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
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
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
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
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Known Live World
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over.
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Curtain Farce
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
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
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
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Fortune Mindset Scorn
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
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 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
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

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