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"Nature abhors a vacuum" Francois Rabelais
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"Half the world does not know how the other half lives." Francois Rabelais
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"Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors." Francois Rabelais
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"A bellyful is a bellyful" Francois Rabelais
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"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" Francois Rabelais
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"The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he" Francois Rabelais
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"The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia." Francois Rabelais
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"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself." Francois Rabelais
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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." Francois Rabelais
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"I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him." Francois Rabelais
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"A habit does not a monk make." Francois Rabelais
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"Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls." Francois Rabelais
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"Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue." Francois Rabelais
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"Debts and lies are generally mixed together." Francois Rabelais
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"For he who can wait, everything comes in time." Francois Rabelais
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"Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this." Francois Rabelais
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"From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains." Francois Rabelais
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"Frugality is for the vulgar." Francois Rabelais
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"Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words." Francois Rabelais
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"How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?" Francois Rabelais
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"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?" Francois Rabelais
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Birth: 1863-01-12 Death: 1902-07-04

"GOD of truth, be Thou alone my guide…"

A disciple of Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda was the chief spokesman for Vendanta, which had societies popping up throughout America and Europe through the 1930s. Born in 1863, Vivekananda's best-known work was "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda," which was a collection of his lectures, letters and poems. During his lifetime he was an in-demand speaker throughout Europe and the United States and represented Hinduism at the first World Parliament of Religions that was held in Chicago in 1893. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna Order in India in 1898, shortly after his first tour …



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