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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
Historian
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Paris
France
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Nicolas Boileau
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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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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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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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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With poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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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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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
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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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It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
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Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
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Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
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The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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