Alain-Rene Lesage
Novelist
1668-05-06 – 1747-11-17
Alain-Rene Lesage was a French novelist and dramatist best known for the picaresque novel Gil Blas. He was an influential figure in early modern French literature.
Quotes by Alain-Rene Lesage
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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.
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I am happy and content because I think I am.
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.
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To think is to say no.
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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.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.
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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
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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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