Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEYour rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEIt may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEPride and conceit were the original sins of man.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEThe pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEEvil tongues never want a whet.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEI am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEThe 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 LESAGEDoubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEPlain as a pike-staff.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEJustice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEMutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEOn peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEI am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEWould you like to be a brilliant conversationalist?
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEA flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGEIsocrates 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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