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Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

Francois Rabelais

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust
No noble man ever hated good wine.
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Goodness Hate Man Wine
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
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Leave Myself Poor
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
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.
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Human Leaving Myself Soul State Visible World
Plain as a nose in a man’s face.
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Anand Thakur
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.
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Drink Future Present Thirsty
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
Believe me, ’tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
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Believe Hero Thing Virtue
Row on whatever happens.
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Hard Time Inspirational One Liner
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it
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Anand Thakur
I drink no more than a sponge.
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Drink Myself One Liner
Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.
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Certain Fortune Hazard Spirit
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
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Himself Man Worth

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