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Quotes from Pantagruel — François Rabelais

d. 1553 France

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What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.

Pantagruel (1532)

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

Pantagruel (1532)

It is the custom of Africa always to produce new and monstrous things.

Pantagruel (1532)

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.

Pantagruel (1532)

When the danger's past the saint is cheated.

Pantagruel (1532)

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Pantagruel (1532)

Let us seek the solution of these doubts at the bottom of the inexhaustible well, where Heraclitus says that truth is hidden.

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I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Pantagruel (1532)

He replies nothing but monosyllables. I believe he would make three bites of a cherry.

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A good intention does not mean honor.

Pantagruel (1532)

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done.

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And there I began to think that it is very true, which is said, that half the world does not know how the other half lives.

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But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

Pantagruel (1532)

Machination is worth more than force.

Pantagruel (1532)

Invented by the calumniating enemy.

Pantagruel (1532)

Attribution

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