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A habit does not a monk make.

Francois Rabelais

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
I drink for the thirst to come.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Myself Thirst
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Conscience Ruin Science Soul
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tunder.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Rain Wind
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

Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
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
Machination is worth more than force.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Force One Liner Worth
If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Avoid Break Mirror See
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Leave Myself Poor
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Future Present Thirsty
Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Friendship Man Notice Remember
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Drink Forever Myself
The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Around Head Missing Moments Right
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe Goodness Himself Man Writing

A habit does not a monk make.

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