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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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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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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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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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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
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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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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
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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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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
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All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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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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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
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