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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
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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If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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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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All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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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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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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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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Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
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