Francois Rabelais Quotes

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

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

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

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

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Machination is worth more than force.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

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

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

No clock is more regular than the belly.