Quotations From FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

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• 51.

  When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Gargantua to Pantagruel, in Pantagruel, ch. 8, p. 242, Pleiade edition (1995).
  
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• 52.

  If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all—both old and young.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Gargantua, in Gargantua, ch. 40, p. 110, Pleiade edition (1995).
  
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• 53.

  It is, said Gargantua, as Plato said ... that republics will be happy when kings philosophize or philosophers reign.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Gargantua, in Gargantua, ch. 45, p. 124, Pleiade edition (1995).
  
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• 54.

  DO AS YOU WISH.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Narrator, in Gargantua, ch. 57, p. 149, Pleiade edition (1995). Motto for those living in the utopian, ideal "Abbey of Theleme."
• 55.

  Giving words [is] an act of lovers.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Pantagruel, in Fourth Book, ch. 56, p. 670, Pleiade edition (1995).
• 56.

  I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Panurge, in Fifth Book, ch. 17, p. 764, Pleiade edition (1995).
• 57.

  And tough shit for money. Some day I'll have only too much: because I have a philosopher's stone that draws money from purses, like a magnet attracts iron.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Panurge, in Pantagruel, ch. 17, p. 277, Pleiade edition (1995).
  
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• 58.

  For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Panurge, in Fourth Book, ch. 48, p. 650, Pleiade edition (1995).
  
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• 59.

  In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. The potentate, in Fourth Book, ch. 44, p. 640, Pleiade edition (1995).
  
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• 60.

  A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

  François Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Ch. 5, p. 19, Pleiade edition (1995). in the original: "Petit pluye abat grand vend. Longue beuvettes rompent le tonnoire." Pun on "tonnerre."
  
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