François Rabelais Quotes

You have there hit the nail on the head.

a child is a fire to be lit, not a vase to be filled

¿No es mejor y más honrado morir virtuosamente batallando que vivir huyendo villanamente?

Let us fly and save our bacon.

Alluring, courtly, comely, fine, complete, Wise, personable, ravishing, and sweet, Come joys enjoy. The Lord celestial Hath given enough wherewith to please us all.

Necessity has no law.

He did not care a button for it.

In end, this free goodwill and simple meaning of the Canarians wrought such tenderness in my father's heart that he could not abstain from shedding tears, and wept most profusely; then, by choice words very congruously adapted, strove in what he could to diminish the estimation of the good offices which he had done them, saying, that any courtesy he had conferred upon them was not worth a rush, and what favour soever he had showed them he was bound to do it.

Et tant molestement le poursuivirent qu'il fut contraint soi reposer sur les tours de l'église notre Notre-Dame, auquel lieu étant, et voyant tant de gens,
à l'entour de soi dit clairement:
« Je crois que ces maroufles veulent que je leurs paye ici ma bienvenue et mon proficiat. C'est raison. Je leur vais donner le vin. Mais ce ne sera que par ris. »
Lors en souriant détacha sa belle braguette, et tirant sa mentule en l'air les compissa si aigrement, qu'il en noya deux cent soixante mille, quatre cent dix et huit, sans les femmes et petit enfants.
Quelque nombre d'iceux évada ce pissefort à légèreté des pieds. Et quand furent au plus haut de l'université, suant, toussant, crachant, et hors d'haleine , commencèrent à renier et jurer les uns en colère, les autres par ris: « Carimari, Carimara, Par sainte Mamie, nous son baignez par ris», dont fut depuis la ville nommée Paris laquelle auparavant on appelait Leucece, comme dit Strabo lib. 4 c'est-à-dire en grec, Blanchette, pour les blanches cuisses des dames dudit lieu.

Ліпше зовсім нічого не вчитися, ніж учитися з таких книжок під ферулою таких вихователів. Бо вся ота їхня наука — дурниця, а їхня мудрість — харки-макогоники, вони тільки найкращі, найшляхетніші уми із плигу збивають і вицвіт юнацтва занапащають.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps

Thought I to myself, we shall never come off scot-free.

All their life was spent not in laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their own free will and pleasure. They rose out of their beds when they thought good : they did eat, drink, labour, sleep, when they had a mind to it, and were disposed for it. None did awake them, none did offer to constrain them to eat, drink, nor to do any other thing ; for so had Gargantua established it. In all their rule, and strictest tie of their order, there was but this one clause to be observed,

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.