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Quote of François Rabelais - Hours were made for man, not...


Biography - François Rabelais:

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

Hours were made for man, not man for hours.


Note 

Note



"I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours."


Quote source: Gargantua and Pantagruel

Wikisource - Rabelais - Gargantua (fr) 




Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Les heures sont faites pour l'homme, et non l'homme pour les heures.

German
Die Stunden sind für den Menschen da und nicht der Mensch für die Stunden.




See also 

See also...



One should eat to live, and not live to eat.




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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.





Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.





Time is the moving image of eternity.
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