Monk Seal

Famous quotes containing the words monk and/or seal:

    “At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant, joyful, good natured, dextrous, bold, adventurous, thoughtful, tall, thin, with a capacious mouth, gifted in the nose, a great dispatcher of hours, quite an accomplisher of masses, a quick doer-in of vigils,—to put it in a nutshell, a true monk if ever there’s been one since this monk of a world first monked out a monk; moreover, a cleric to his very teeth in matters of the breviary.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “What is the seal of liberation?—No longer to be ashamed in our own presence.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)