Top 15 François Rabelais Quotes

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.

Readers, friends, if you turn these pages
Put your prejudice aside,
For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous,
Nothing sick, or bad — or contagious.
Not that I sit here glowing with pride
For my book: all you'll find is laughter:
That's all the glory my heart is after,
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être.

the wise may be instructed by a fool

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

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

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

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

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

Si vous faîtes attention aux signes, quand donc ferez vous attention à ce qu'ils signifient?

If you pay attention to the signs, but when will you pay attention to what they signify?