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The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Francois Rabelais

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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I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
We will take the good-will for the deed.
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Acceptance Goodness Will
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
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
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Battle Coin Force War
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 won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
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Lying Poor Togetherness
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
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
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
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
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

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

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