Author of quotes: Francois Rabelais

Human flesh, imperfect, accessible to disease and old age, submissive to temptations, is a true piece of life. We cannot but recognize her imperfections, but we have no right to consider her sinful because of these imperfections.

What exists in reality must also exist in art. Let those be the basest manifestations of the weaknesses of the human organism, sexual and digestive processes, normal and abnormal. All this is life.

We believe that the highest good lies not in taking and receiving, but in giving and giving, and we consider ourselves blessed not when we take and receive much from others, but when we bestow much on others and much on them. give.

Everything that appears to your gaze in the sky and what you call phenomena, everything that the earth's surface exposes to you, everything that the seas and rivers conceal in themselves, is incomparable with what the bowels of the earth contain.

Your philosophers grumble that everything has already been described by the ancients, and now they have nothing to discover, but this is a clear delusion.

A lion is recognized by its claws.

Philosophers will realize that all their knowledge, as well as the knowledge of their predecessors, is only a tiny part of what is and what they do not yet know.

The sage Thales was right, who, to the question of the Egyptian king Amazis, what is the most reasonable thing in the world, answered Time, for only time opened and will open everything hidden, and that is why the ancients called Saturn, that is, Time the father of Truth, Truth is the daughter of Time.

But I can't...

Virtue must go in front, and Fortune behind.

A distinctive feature of an animate being is the ability to move spontaneously.

Everyone knows that there is nothing perfect in the world and nowhere is there complete bliss.

They do not see anything incredible in the fact that two contradictory judgments can be true in mode, form, nature, and also in time.

Sextus sent a messenger to Tarquinius for advice on how to completely subdue the Gabians and achieve unquestioning obedience from them. The king, not believing in the fidelity of the messenger, did not answer him. Instead of answering, he led him into his secret garden and before his eyes and in his presence he cut off the heads of the tallest poppies with his sword. The messenger returned without any answer, but as soon as he told Sextus what Tarquin had done under him, Sextus easily guessed from this sign alone that his father advised him to cut off the heads of the city governors and thereby finally enslave all the rest and bring them into complete obedience.