Alain Rene Le Sage Quotations

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

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.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

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).

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.

Plain as a pike-staff.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

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.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.