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All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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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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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It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
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If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
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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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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
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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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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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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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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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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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