How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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Anand Thakur
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
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No noble man ever hated good wine.
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I am going to seek a grand perhaps.
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The appetite grows with eating.
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Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.
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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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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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I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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To laugh is proper to man.
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Nature abhors a vacuum.
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Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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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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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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