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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.

Francois Rabelais

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
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Drink Rain Wind
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Greatness Guide Himself Judgement Sound World
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
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Art Peace Try War
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking
Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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Freedom Myself Thinking
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
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
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
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Call Counsel Force Time Virtue
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
A good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
Nature abhors a vacuum.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Nature One Liner

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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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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