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Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

Francois Rabelais

No clock is more regular than the belly.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Body Regular Wisdom
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Abuse Family Old Rejection Understand Young Yourself
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Battle Coin Force War
For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Born Future God Impossible Woman
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Conscience Ruin Science Soul
Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hard Time Inspirational Patience Time
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.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Anand Thakur
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
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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Anand Thakur
The appetite grows with eating.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Appetite Eat
A habit does not a monk make.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Habit Monk One Liner
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth

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