Alain-Rene Lesage Quotes

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

Drink Strike Thirsty Trimble
Plain as a pike-staff.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Like Plain Staff
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Breath Coeval Inextinguishable
Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Enthusiasm Freee Give Just Reign Say Whatever
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Everything Flatter Personage Rish
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Doubt
I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Think
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Cannot Dear Fine Such Thing
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

Belly Elegant Expression Isocitrate Spent Under
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
ALAIN-RENE LESAGE

Conceit Original Sin Man

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