Francois Rabelais Quotes

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• A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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  Children, Fire, Vases

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• If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

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  Humor, Humility, Mirrors

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• We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

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  Long, Forbidden Love, Desire

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• Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

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  Mother, Ignorance, Evil

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

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  Real, Over You, Needs

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• 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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  Time, Father, Feelings

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• Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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  Life, Time, Waiting

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• Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

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  Science, Soul, Perdition

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• Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

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  Mind, Malicious

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.250, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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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  Sex, Humanity, Balls

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• When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

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  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

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  Money, Famous Last Words, Poor

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• I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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  Life, Success, Done

  "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter XXVII, 1532.

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• Tell the truth and shame the devil.

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  Honesty, Devil, Telling The Truth

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

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  Leadership, Discipline, Able

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.177, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

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  Attitude, Fall, Opportunity

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• I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

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  Laughter, Writing, Men

  "The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (Introduction)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1532-1564.

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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

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  Men, Esteem, Developmental

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

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  Patience, Waiting, Ends

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• Machination is worth more than force.

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  Deceit, Force

  "Pantagruel" by François Rabelais, ch. XXVII, 1532.

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• No noble man ever hated good wine.

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  Wine, Men, Noble Man

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• Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

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  Funny, Running, Dog

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

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  Love, Marriage, Small Gestures

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• Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

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  Lying, Together, Debt

  "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.

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• According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

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  Art, War, Military

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