Alain-Rene Lesage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Knowledge #Doubt
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Expression #Greek #Devil
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Risk #Great Person #Flatterer
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Memories #Shining #May
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Women #Passion #Talking
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Inspirational #Running #Soul
Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Taken #Giving #Enthusiasm
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dÃ©pens de sa mÃ©moire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Memories #Son #Shining
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Pride #Men #Sin
Plain as a pike-staff.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage

#Staff

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