Alain-René Lesage Quotes

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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-René Lesage
I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.

Alain-René Lesage
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Alain-René Lesage
I don't know any more than you what the future will hold. But my point of view is different. You see despair and I see cause for hope. I read the future in a way that is more agreeable than you do.

Alain-René Lesage
To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.

Alain-René Lesage
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Alain-René Lesage
A good doctor pursues his calling without any regard to a bad result. Otherwise, teaching in medical school might be called into question and where would we be then?

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Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.

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A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to consider it a pleasure to find one agreeable to her father.

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In order to know the worth of a virtuous husband, is it not necessary for the wife to be dispirited herself? First, give her a young man of twenty, and not only will she be fine, she'll have a reasonable husband.

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A woman forgives the audacity which her beauty has prompted us to be guilty of.

Alain-René Lesage
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

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Voltaire inscribed on a statue of Love: "Whoever thou art, behold thy master! He rules thee, or has ruled thee, or will rule thee!"

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Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Alain-René Lesage