Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Anand Thakur
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
FRANCOIS RABELAISA child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIn their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI am going to seek a great perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDon’t limp in front of the lame.
FRANCOIS RABELAISWisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.
FRANCOIS RABELAISI owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
FRANCOIS RABELAISIf the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
FRANCOIS RABELAISDeath is the vast perhaps.
FRANCOIS RABELAISThe Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
FRANCOIS RABELAISLanguages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
FRANCOIS RABELAISFrugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAISHow do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
FRANCOIS RABELAISOne 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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