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Francois Rabelais Quotes about Laughter

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

"The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (Introduction)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1532-1564.

To laugh is proper to man.

Gargantua bk. 1, "Rabelais to the Reader" (1534)

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria