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… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image