Who is Francois Rabelais
François Rabelais (UK: RAB-ə-lay, US: -LAY, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He is primarily known as a writer of satire, of the grotesque, and of bawdy jokes and songs.Ecclesiastical yet anticlerical, Christian and considered by some as a free thinker, a doctor and having the image of a bon vivant, the multiple facets of his personality sometimes seem contradictory. Caught up in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais showed himself to be both sensitive and critical towards the great questions of his time. Subsequently, the views of his life and work have evolved according to the times and currents of thought.Admirer of Erasmus, hand...Read Full Biography of Francois Rabelais
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Francois Rabelais Quotes
- Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
- To good and true love fear is forever affixed.
- I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
- If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
- Misery is the company of lawsuits.
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Rodjnaquin: lol both ecclesiastical and anticlerical, christian and a free thinker, a doctor and a bon vivant, the multiple facets of his personality sometimes seem contradictory. françois rabelais - wikipedia
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Death_societyp: y'all smoke to enjoy it. i smoke to die - francois rabelais
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