Gargantua and Pantagruel Quotes

“Well, quoth Friar John, as good sit still as rise up and fall; what cannot be cured must be endured.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

topic:suffering

“But where is the last year's snow? This was the greatest care that Villon the Parisian poet took.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

topic:care

“Oh, well physicked, said the monk; a hundred devils leap into my body, if there be not more old drunkards than old physicians!”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

topic:body

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

topic:worth