“I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours.”

— Francois Rabelais , book Gargantua and Pantagruel

Les heures sont faictez pour l'homme, & non l'homme pour les heures.
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 39 (frère Iean des Entommeures).

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Les heures sont faictez pour l'homme, & non l'homme pour les heures.

Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534)

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