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Nicolas Boileau Despreaux Inspirational Quotes (41)

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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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With poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement et, sans perdre courage, Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
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In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.
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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach once we have left it, we can never return.
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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.
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Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
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Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
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