François Rabelais c.1494–c.1553
French humanist, satirist, and physician 

1. Nature abhors a vacuum.
   quoting, in Latin, an article of ancient wisdom
   Gargantua (1534) bk. 1, ch. 5
2. Fay ce que vouldras.
   Do what you like.
   Gargantua (1534) bk. 1, ch. 57; see Crowley
3. A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
   attributed; see Plutarch
4. I am going to seek a great perhaps…Bring down the curtain, the farce is played out.
   last words; attributed, but probably apocryphal