Alain-René Lesage

“Pride and vanity are the source of all our miseducation.”

“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”

“I have remarked that a true friend is a person who can be a little brutal in honesty.”

“Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.”

“Experience is the best of all schools, but the school fees are heavy.”

“Avarice is the parent of all crimes.”

“Calumny is like a wasp; if you don't kill it, it will sting you again.”

“The best sermons are lived, not preached.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“It may be said that the most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.”

“The great have no friends; they only have flatterers.”

“Hope, as they say, is the sick man's bread.”