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I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

Francois Rabelais

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
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Fall Ground Oneself
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
Machination is worth more than force.
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Force One Liner Worth
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
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
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
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
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
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
From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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Hunger Strength
How can I govern others, who can’t even govern myself?
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Control Government Myself Power
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
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 good intention does not mean honor.
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Goodness Intention Respect
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

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