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He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]


Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Truth has not such an urgent air. [Fr., La verite n'a point cet air impetueux.]
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr.,...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. [Fr., La vertu d'un coeur noble est la marque c...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est ...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est conten...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
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NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureu...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit...
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NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. [Fr., Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. [Fr., Hatez-v...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. [Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans...
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. [Fr., Un diner rechauffe ne valut jamais rien.]
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.
NICOLAS BOILEAU Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses mœurs.

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NICHOLAS BOILEAU He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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NICHOLAS BOILEAU Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
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NICHOLAS BOILEAU Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
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