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Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
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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All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
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Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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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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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
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Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
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Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
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A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
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With poverty everything becomes frightful.
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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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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
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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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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
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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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