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

Francois Rabelais

Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
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Beginning Breathe Strength War
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
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Court France Nurse
Death is the vast perhaps.
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Death One Liner
I’ve often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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Common Fools Teaching Well Wisdom
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.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
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Father Feeling Reveal Time Truth
The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible, we’ll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.
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Accomplishment Happiness Possible Save Soul Willing
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.
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Existence Language Natural Ourselves Pleasure Word
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.
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Goodness Make Up Nature Start Woman
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
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he’ll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
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Animal Bite Dog Thirst Water Yourself
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition.
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Conscience Science Soul
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
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
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Drink Myself Thinking

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