About François Rabelais
François Rabelais (UK: RAB-ə-lay, US: -LAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from...
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Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.