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I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

Francois Rabelais

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
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.
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Body Fair Word
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
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Children Deep Fire Parents
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
There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
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Drink Old Physician
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
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.
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Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
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
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
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
When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
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Counsel Himself Judgement Marriage
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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Hard Time Inspirational Patience Time

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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