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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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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