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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No noble man ever hated good wine.

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  Wine, Men, Noble Man

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• Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

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  Science, Soul, Perdition

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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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  Men, Charity, Vexation

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• Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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  Life, Time, Waiting

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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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• 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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• It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

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  Mirrors, Stupidity, Want

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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?

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  Wise, Foolish, Made

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• I am going to seek a great perhaps.

  Francois Rabelais

  Last Words

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

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  Doe, Half, World

  "Pantagruel". Book by François Rabelais (chapter XXXII), 1532.

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• Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

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  Drinking, Food, Eating

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