François Rabelais Quotes

Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan

Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.

A son [Timon le Misanthrope] exemple ie denonce à ces calumniateurs diaboliques, que tous ayent à se pendre dedans le dernier chanteau de ceste lune. Ie les fourniray de licolz.

Certaine gayeté d'esprit conficte en mespris des choses fortuites.

Scampering as if the Devil drove them.

Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it. Being unwilling therefore any way to degenerate from the hereditary mildness and clemency of my parents, I do now forgive you, deliver you from all fines and imprisonments, fully release you, set you at liberty, and every way make you as frank and free as ever you were before.

Needs must when the Devil drives.

— Quoi ! dit Tripet, ce gautier ici se gabèle de nous. Oui es-tu? — Je suis, dit Gymnaste, pauvre diable. — Ha ! dit Tripet, puisque tu es pauvre diable, c'est raison que passes outre, car tout pauvre diable passe partout sans péage ni gabelle; mais ce n'est de coutume que pauvres diables soient si bien montés. Pourtant, monsieur le diable, descendez que j'aie le roussin, et si bien il ne me porte, vous, maître diable, me porterez, car j'aime fort qu'un diable tel m'emporte. »

Gymnastes, Gargantua’ya düşmanın ardına düşmenin gerekli olup olmadığını sordu.
Gargantua şöyle karşılık verdi ona:
“Hiç gerekli değil, çünkü gerçek askerlik sanatı gereğince düşmanı umutsuzluğa düşürmemeliyiz; bıçak kemiğe dayandı mı, düşman yıpranıp tükenmekte olan gücünü ve yüreğini yeniden toparlayıverir. Hiçbir kurtuluş umudu kalmaması, bitmiş tükenmiş insanları diriltip kurtaracak olan ilaçların en iyisidir. Nice zaferler, yenenlerin elinden kaçıp yenilenlerin eline geçmiştir, çünkü yenenler hak ettikleri kadarıyla yetinmeyip her şeyi çiğneyip yok etmeye, düşmanlarını haber götürecek tek kişi bırakmamacasına öldürmeye kalkmışlardır! Düşmanlarınıza kapıları, yolları açın her zaman; hatta gümüşten bir köprü kurun onlara geçip gitmeleri için.

Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

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.

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

Translation: In all companies there are more fools than wise men, and the greater part always gets the better of the wiser.

He always looked a given horse in the mouth.