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Francois Rabelais
1493 - April 9, 1553
Nationality: French
Category: Clergyman
Subcategory: French Clergyman

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

   

I drink no more than a sponge.

   

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

   

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

   

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

   

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

   

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

   

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

   

A habit does not a monk make.

   

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

   

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

   

It is my opinion that time brings all things to fruition; by time all things are made plain; time is the father of truth.

   

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

   

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

   

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

   

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.

   

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

   

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

   

No clock is more regular than the belly.

   

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

   

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