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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1636
Born: January 1
Died: 1711
Died: January 1
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Paris
France
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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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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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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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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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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
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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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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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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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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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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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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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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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