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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.
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I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.
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A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
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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.
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To forbid wine to a man of your type is the same as forbidding women to a man of a different sort.
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The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
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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.
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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.
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Alain-René Lesage
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Born:
May 6, 1668
Died:
November 17, 1747
(aged 79)
Bio:
Alain-René Lesage was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks, his comedy Turcaret, and his picaresque novel Gil Blas.
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Gil Blas (1715)
Turcaret
The devil on two sticks
The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
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