François Rabelais [fʁɑ̃.swa ʁa.blɛ] war ein französischer Schriftsteller der Renaissance, Humanist, römisch-katholischer Ordensbruder und praktizierender Arzt. Wikipedia
„Der Hunger kommt beim Essen […]; aber der Durst vergeht beim Trinken.“
Die muntern Reden der Bezechten. In: Gargantua und Pantagruel, Buch 1, Kap. 5. Deutsch von Walter Widmer (1903-1965). Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 1970. Band 1, S. 33
Original franz.: "L'appétit vient en mangeant; la soif s'en va en buvant."
„Lasst den Vorhang herunter; die Farce ist zu Ende.“
Letzte Worte, 9. April 1553
Original franz.: "Tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée."
„Die Stunden sind für den Menschen da und nicht der Mensch für die Stunden.“
Bruder Hannes in: F. Rabelais: Gargantua und Pantagruel. München, Biederstein Verlag 1951, S.122.
Original franz.: "Les heures sont faites pour l'homme, et non l'homme pour les heures."
“Plain as the nose in a man's face.”
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
“He did not care a button for it.”
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 16.
“How well I feathered my nest.”
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 17.
“I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.”
Je n'ai rien vaillant; je dois beaucoup; je donne le reste aux pauvres.
His one line will, as quoted in Arthur Machen : A Short Account of His Life and Work (1964) by Aidan Reynolds and William E. Charlton, p. 186.
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Third Book (1546), Chapter 52 : How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that the fire is not able to consume it
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 23.
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 6.
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
“Looking as like…as one pea does like another.”
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 2.
“Whose cockloft is unfurnished.”
Author's prologue
Prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Ch. 57 : How the Thelemites were governed, and of their manner of living; the famous dictum of the abbey of Theleme presented here, "Do what thou wilt" (Fais ce que voudras), evokes an ancient expression by St. Augustine of Hippo: "Love, and do what thou wilt." The expression of Rabelais was later used by the Hellfire Club established by Sir Francis Dashwood, and by Aleister Crowley in his The Book of the Law (1904): "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
Natura abhorret vacuum.
Chapter 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=tBROAAAAcAAJ&q=%22natura+abhorret+vacuum%22&pg=PA22#v=onepage.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.
Quelle: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 54 : The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme.
