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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1636
Born: January 1
Died: 1711
Died: January 1
Historian
Lawyer
Literary Critic
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Paris
France
Boileau
Nicolas Boileau
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Foolishly
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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
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All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
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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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Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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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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Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
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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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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
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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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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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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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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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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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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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