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

—François Rabelais

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About François Rabelais

Portrait of François Rabelais

François Rabelais (UK: , US: ; 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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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

—François Rabelais

Nature abhors a vacuum.

—François Rabelais

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

—François Rabelais

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

—François Rabelais

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Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

—Thomas Shadwell

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

—Abraham Lincoln

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We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.

—Jeanne Moreau

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Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

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