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“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais


tags: death, french-renaissance-writer, john-green, last-words, life, looking-for-alaska, meaning-of-life, miles-halter

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“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you.
I'd rather write about laughing than crying,
For laughter makes men human, and courageous.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel


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“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”
― François Rabelais, Pantagruel


tags: conscience, science

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“A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.”
― François Rabelais


tags: mothers-in-law

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“Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être.”
― François Rabelais


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“the wise may be instructed by a fool”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel


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“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
― François Rabelais


tags: attractive, gesture, love, word

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“Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
― François Rabelais


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“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
― François Rabelais


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“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.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel


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“I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.”
― François Rabelais


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“I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.”
― François Rabelais


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“Bring down the curtain,
the farce is played out.”
― François Rabelais


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“Ignorance est mère de tous les maux.”
― François Rabelais


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“..to laugh is proper to the man.”
― François Rabelais


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“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?”
― François Rabelais


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“Conheço muitos que não puderam quando deviam porque não quiseram quando podiam.”
― François Rabelais


tags: filosofia

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“... I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose ...”
― François Rabelais


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“‎I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais


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“I go to see a Greater Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais


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“Une tête bien faite et une tête bien pleine (kepala yang baik adalah kepala yang penuh dengan ilmu pengetahuan”
― François Rabelais


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“May the fire of St. Anthony fly up thy fundament.”
― François Rabelais


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“...and also celebrate the Skill of the Scythians in that Art, who sent once to Darius King of Persia an Embassador that made him a present of a Bird, a Frog, a Mouse, and five Arrows, without speaking one word; and being ask'd what those Presents meant, and if he had Commission to say any thing, answer'd that he had not; Which puzzl'd and gravell'd Darius very much; till Gobrias, one of the seven Captains that had kil'd the Magi explain'd it, saying to Darius, By these Gifts and Offerings the Scythians silently tell you, that except the Persians like Birds fly up to Heaven, like Mice hide themselves near the Centre of the Earth, or like Frogs dive to the very bottom of Ponds and Lakes, they shall be destroyed by the Power and Arrows of the Scythians.”
― François Rabelais


tags: trash-talking

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“it behoves you to develop a sagacious flair for sniffing and smelling out and appreciating such fair and fatted books, to be swiff: in pursuit and bold in the attack, and then, by careful reading and frequent meditation, to crack open the bone and seek out the substantificial marrow – that is to say, what I mean by such Pythagorean symbols – sure in the hope that you will be made witty and wise by that reading; for you will discover therein a very different savour and a more hidden instruction which will reveal to you the highest hidden truths and the most awesome mysteries”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel


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“Baste! enough! I sup, I wet, I humect, I moisten my gullet, I drink, and all for fear of dying. Drink always and you shall never die.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1 (Illustrated Edition)


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“I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog. Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you; drink always before the thirst, and it will never come upon you.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1 (Illustrated Edition)


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“He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1 (Illustrated Edition)


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“This year there will be an eclipse of the Moon on the fourth day of August.9 Saturn will be retrograde; Venus, direct; Mercury, variable. And a mass of other planets will not proceed as they used to.10 As a result, crabs this year will walk sideways, rope-makers work backwards, stools end up on benches, and pillows be found at the foot of the bed;11 many men’s bollocks will hang down for lack of a game-bag;12 the belly will go in front and the bum be the first to sit down; nobody will find the bean in their Twelfth Night cake; not one ace will turn up in a flush; the dice will never do what you want, however much you may flatter them;13 and the beasts will talk in sundry places.”
― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

I was watching QI , the television series.
A quote from Rabelais was spoken.

It triggered thoughts and research.

I was intending to explain, when I recieved a message from <Bunny boiler>.

By then was well gone.

Tried to copy and paste, but it sort of failed.

It basically was a message to self, ease up , laugh as I had been, in watching clever talk. No one upmanship, no I am cleverer than you, just fun discussion.

I do miss that, truly.