Appetite comes with eating.

L'appetit vient en mangeant.

Francois Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Topic

Appetite

Author

Francois Rabelais

Source

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

French

Time

1534 1530s 16th century

Occupation

Humorist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

Rabelais, Francois [Alcofribas Nasier]. La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel [The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel]. 1534, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Rabelais, Francois. Gargantua & Pantagruel. Dover Publications, 2016, bk. 5.

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For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

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Source
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Time
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Original Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Experience [Of Experience]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

Current Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "On Experience." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D.H. Lawrence

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D.H. Lawrence
Source
Pansies
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1929 1920s 20th century
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Citation

Lawrence, D.H. Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929, introduction.