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
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.
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiledby these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.
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 very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old Saint)
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Looking as like - as one pea does like another
He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
Appetite comes with eating.