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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1636
Born: January 1
Died: 1711
Died: January 1
Historian
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Paris
France
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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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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He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
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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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With poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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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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