(reprinted from "the museum.")
"Now, in matter of the knowledge of the works of nature, I would have you to study that exactly; that so there be no sea, river, nor fountain, of which thou dost not know the fishes; all the fowls of the air; all the several kinds of shrubs and trees, whether in forest or orchard; all the sorts of herbs and flowers that grow upon the ground; all the various metals that are hid within the bowels of the earth. Let nothing of all these be hidden from thee.... But because, as the wise man Solomon saith, wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and that knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul; it behoveth thee to serve, to love, to fear God, and on him to cast all thy thoughts and all thy hope, and, by faith fortivied in love to cleave unto him, so that thou mayest never be separated from him by thy sins."—Letter from Garagantua to his son Pantagruel.
"Qui curiosuspostulat totum suce
Paterementi, ferre qui non stifficit
Mediocritatis conscientiam suce,
Judex iniquus, cestimator est malus
Suique naturæque; nam rerumparens,
Libanda tantum quæ venit mortaliôus,
Nos scire patica, multa mirari jubet."
"—Quiescet animus, errabit minus