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François Rabelais Quotes

d. 1553 France

François Rabelais (ca. 1493 – April 9 1553) was a French humanist writer of satirical romances.

France
Novelists
Physicians
Poets
Satirists

Also known as: Francois Rabelais, Rabelais, Rabelais, François

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I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

Which was performed to a T.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: François Rabelais (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.