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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Something of calumny always sticks.

Something of calumny always sticks.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Truth has not such an urgent air.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him.

A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.]

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: A fop sometimes gives important advice.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux quotes: Who lives content with little possesses everything.

Who lives content with little possesses everything.