1.
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
2.
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
3.
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.
Alain-Rene Lesage
4.
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.
Alain-Rene Lesage
5.
Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.
Alain-Rene Lesage
6.
On 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 Lesage
7.
Evil tongues never want a whet.
Alain-Rene Lesage
8.
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
9.
It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
Alain-Rene Lesage
10.
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
Alain-Rene Lesage
11.
Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
Alain-Rene Lesage
12.
Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.
Alain-Rene Lesage
13.
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Alain-Rene Lesage
14.
Plain as a pike-staff.
Alain-Rene Lesage