“The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.”

—  Jean de La Bruyère, book Les Caractères

L'on voit bien que l'Opéra est l'ébauche d'un grand spectacle; il en donne l'idée.
Aphorism 47
Les Caractères (1688), Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit

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