Francois Rabelais Quotes - Page 7

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• How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

  Francois Rabelais

  Order, Color, Language

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• The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

  Francois Rabelais

  Education, Knowledge, Dark

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• Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Thinking, Noble

  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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• Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.

  Francois Rabelais

  Cities, Towns, Small Town

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• It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things.
  [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Novelty, Produce, Customs

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• Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

  Francois Rabelais

  Scots

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.992, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Unhappy, Corruption

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• A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

  Francois Rabelais

  Drinking, Rain, Wind

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