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Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscience is the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin. - François Rabelais
Attribution: François Rabelais (1494–1553), French author, evangelist. Gargantua to Pantagruel, in Pantagruel, ch. 8, p. 245, Pleiade edition (1995).

Categories: Author, Conscience, Evangelist, God, Wisdom

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