Author: François Rabelais

Cited by

• Robin Cook (1)
  • IN: Terminal (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
    FROM: Pantagruel, (1532), Novel, France
• Allison Brennan (1)
  • IN: Original Sin (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: and desire what is denied us.
    FROM: Gargantua, (1534), Novel, France
• Arthur Philips (1)
  • IN: The Song is You (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Muses are virgins... Cupid, when sometimes asked by his mother Venus why he did not attack the Muses, used to reply that he found them so beautiful, so pure, so modest, bashful, and continually occupied... in the arrangement of music, that when he drew near them he unstrung his bow, closed his quiver, and put out his torch, since they made him shy and afraid of injuring them.
    FROM: Gargantua and Pantagruel, 3:31, (1546), Novel, France
• C. W. Gortner (1)
  • IN: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Bottle! Whose mysterious deep does ten thousand secrets keep, With attentive ear I wait; Ease my mind and speak my fate.
    FROM: Book 5, Gargantua and Pantagruel, (1564), Novel, France
• Patricia Cornwell (1)
  • IN: Flesh and Blood (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
    FROM: NULL, (1532), NULL, France
• William Bowen (1)
  • IN: The Old Tobacco Shop (1921) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Though you believe it not, I care not much: but an honest man, and of good judgement, believeth still what is told him, and that which he finds written.
    FROM: Gargantua and his son pantagruel, (1564), Book, France