Quotes by Francois Rabelais

I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

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.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Nature abhors a vacuum.

When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.