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The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
François Rabelais
Born: 1494
Died: April 19, 1553 (aged 59)
Bio: François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs.
Known for:
- Le Quart Livre (1552)
- The third book of Pantagruel (1546)
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- The complete works of François Rabelais
- The Works Of Rabelais
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