“It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.”
VIII, 26
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
“To laugh is proper to man.”
Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.
Rabelais to the Reader (prefatory note on leading page).
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)
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Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)
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