Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes - Page 3

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• Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Suggestions, Fool, Sometimes

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• Happy the poet who with ease can steer
  From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
  Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Gay, Ease, Poet

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• With poverty everything becomes frightful.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Poverty, Ending Poverty

  "Satires (Satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Stars, Thinking, Heaven

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• Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Truth, Lovely, Truth Is

  Epistles no. 9 (1673)

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• Something of calumny always sticks.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Sticks, Calumny

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• No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Writing, Able, Limits

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• He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  World, Please, Can Not

  "Satires (Satire 1)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Yield, Rights, Support

  "Lutrin". Chant I. 185,

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• The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Fool, Satisfied

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• The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Burden

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• Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Poverty, Poor

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• Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Gold, Ugly

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