Francois Rabelais
Francois Rabelais
François Rabelaiswas a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics considered him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His literary legacy is such that today, the word "Rabelaisian" has been...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
CountryFrance
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.
I am going to seek a great perhaps.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
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.
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]
The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.
I build only living stones--men.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.