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Biography : French Renaissance writer *Approximate years of birth and death.
Born: 1494 - Died: 1553
Period:
15th century
Place of birth: France
France

François Rabelais - Quotes

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

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Ignorance is the mother of all evils.
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To laugh is proper to man.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

Hours were made for man, not man for hours.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

time

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
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All things move onward to their term.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel /

Misery is the company of lawsuits.
François Rabelais

I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
François Rabelais

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
François Rabelais

love

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
François Rabelais

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
François Rabelais

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
François Rabelais

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.
François Rabelais

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
François Rabelais

truth

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
François Rabelais

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
François Rabelais

love

Nature abhors a vacuum.
François Rabelais

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
François Rabelais

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