If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering. — 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 grows. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share
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