Frasi di Francois Rabelais (122 frasi, pagina 2)

Queen Whims, or Queen Quintessence, in Ch. 20 : How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
Contesto: The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds. For, contemplating the mellifluous suavity of your thrice discreet reverences, it is impossible not to be persuaded with facility that neither your affections nor your intellects are vitiated with any defect or privation of liberal and exalted sciences. Far from it, all must judge that in you are lodged a cornucopia and encyclopaedia, an unmeasurable profundity of knowledge in the most peregrine and sublime disciplines, so frequently the admiration, and so rarely the concomitants of the imperite vulgar. This gently compels me, who in preceding times indefatigably kept my private affections absolutely subjugated, to condescend to make my application to you in the trivial phrase of the plebeian world, and assure you that you are well, more than most heartily welcome.

“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.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564)
Contesto: 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.

“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”

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Origine: Pantagruel

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

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

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“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.”

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Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)

“the wise may be instructed by a fool”

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

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“We have here other fish to fry.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 12.

“In end, this free goodwill and simple meaning of the Canarians wrought such tenderness in my father's heart that he could not abstain from shedding tears, and wept most profusely; then, by choice words very congruously adapted, strove in what he could to diminish the estimation of the good offices which he had done them, saying, that any courtesy he had conferred upon them was not worth a rush, and what favour soever he had showed them he was bound to do it.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 50 : Gargantua's speech to the vanquished -->

“It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 15.

“He always looked a given horse in the mouth.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.

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

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532), Chapter 29 : How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred Giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their Captain (Loup-garou is the french term for werewolf).

“Panurge had no sooner heard this, but he was upon the high-rope.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 18.

“He freshly and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 62.

“Others made a virtue of necessity.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 22.

“Our forefathers and ancestors of all times have been of this nature and disposition, that, upon the winning of a battle, they have chosen rather, for a sign and memorial of their triumphs and victories, to erect trophies and monuments in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency than by architecture in the lands which they had conquered. For they did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of men purchased by liberality than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subject to the injury of storms and tempests, and to the envy of everyone.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 50 : Gargantua's speech to the vanquished.

“Which was performed to a T.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 41.

“It is meat, drink, and cloth to us.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 7.

“And so on to the end of the chapter.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 10.

“Nothing is so dear and precious as time.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 5.

“A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.”

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Certaine gayeté d'esprit conficte en mespris des choses fortuites.
Prologue de l'autheur.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552)

“Needs must when the Devil drives.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 57.

“To laugh is proper to man.”

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Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.
Rabelais to the Reader (prefatory note on leading page).
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)

“Then fail not most carefully to peruse the books of the Greek, Arabian, and Latin physicians, not despising the Talmudists and Cabalists; and by frequent anatomies get thee the perfect knowledge of that other world, called the microcosm, which is man. And at some of the hours of the day apply thy mind to the study of the Holy Scriptures; first, in Greek, the New Testament, with the Epistles of the Apostles;: and then the Old Testament in Hebrew. In brief, let me see thee an abyss and bottomless pit of knowledge; for from henceforward, as thou growest great and becomest a man, thou must part from this tranquillity and rest of study, thou must learn chivalry, warfare, and the exercises of the field, the better thereby to defend my house and our friends, and to succour and protect them at all their needs against the invasion and assaults of evildoers.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Pantagruel (1532), Chapter 8.

“A good crier of green sauce.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 31.

“I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.”

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Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée.
Last words, according to the Life of Rabelais (1694) by Peter Anthony Motteux.
Variant translations:
I am going to seek the great perhaps.
I am going to search for the great perhaps.

“Corn is the sinews of war.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 46.

“Comrades, I hear the track and beating of the enemy's horse-feet, and withal perceive that some of them come in a troop and full body against us. Let us rally and close here, then set forward in order, and by this means we shall be able to receive their charge to their loss and our honour.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 43.

“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.”

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Origine: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 32.