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The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Something of calumny always sticks.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Truth has not such an urgent air.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Who lives content with little possesses everything.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
— Nicolas Boileau
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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
[Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.] — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A fop sometimes gives important advice.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux