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Nicolas Boileau Despreaux Inspirational Quotes (41)

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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
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It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
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Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
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He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
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Of all the animals which fly in the air, walk on the land, or swim in the sea, from Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal in my opinion is man.
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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
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Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.
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It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
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If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
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