Nicolas Boileau's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#5197
Beware avarice earns little and she is dishonour a lot.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5198
Each passion speaks a different language.

Nicolas Boileau
(Art poétique)

#5199
Each line, each Word runs the event.

Nicolas Boileau
(Art poétique)

#5200
Nature, fertile in excellent spirits, knows the authors share talent.

Nicolas Boileau
(Art poétique)

#5201
In his claims a woman is boundless.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satire X)

#5202
Constantly we take the mask, and leaving the nature, it is feared to be under his own figure.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5203
Be rather Mason if that's your talent.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5204
Nothing is good than the real: the true one is friendly.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5205
It is learned when you drink well; Who knows drinking knows nothing.

Nicolas Boileau
(Poésies diverses)

#5206
Keep it simple with art.

Nicolas Boileau
(L'art poétique)

#5207
A sonnet without blemish is worth only a long poem.

Nicolas Boileau
(Art poétique)

#5208
The mountain in the work gives birth to a mouse.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satires)

#5209
Honor is like a steep island and without edge: we cannot longer go as soon as it is outside.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satires)

#5210
We can be heroes without ravaging the Earth.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5211
In the dangerous art of rhyme and write, is not from the mediocre to the worst degree.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satires)

#5212
A noble heart is happy with what it finds in him, and not be applauds point the qualities of others.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5213
Without the language, in a Word, the author the most divinEst always, whatever he does, a bad writer.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satires)

#5214
A book you dislike: forcing you to read? Let die a fat in its obscurity: an author may not rot in safety?

Nicolas Boileau
(Satires)

#5215
But I live in Paris! Hey! That is would I do, I know wrong, fake or lie; and, when I can, I can agree.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satires)

#5216
Never to the Viewer do anything incredible. The real can sometimes be unlikely.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5217
As I speak is already far from me.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5218
To sing an Auguste, a Virgil...

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5219
Ambition, avarice, love, the haineTiennent slave his mind to the chain.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satire)

#5220
Never it is great so far as it is just.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5221
Who knows just never knew how to write.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5222
The time some respect what we're doing without him.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5223
This is well understood clearly, and the words to say it come easily.

Nicolas Boileau
(Art poétique)

#5224
Of all animals raised in the air, who walk on the Earth, or swim in the sea, from Paris to the Peru, of the Japan to Rome, the more silly animal, in my opinion, it is the man.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satire)

#5225
Ignorance always is ready to admire themselves.

Nicolas Boileau
(L'Art poétique)

#5226
Friend of virtue rather than virtuous.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5227
Vice, always dark, like the dark.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epitre VIII)

#5228
Evil like others produced only trouble.

Nicolas Boileau
(Satire VII)

#5229
Make haste slowly; and, without losing courage, twenty times on the job hand your book: Polish it constantly and repolissez it; Add sometimes, and often clear.

Nicolas Boileau
(L'Art poétique)

#5230
Mind's point moved by what he does not.

Nicolas Boileau
(L'art poétique)

#5231
Every age has its pleasures, his mind and his morals.

Nicolas Boileau
(L'Art poétique)

#5232
Gold, even to the ugliness, gives a complexion of beauty.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5233
A beautiful mess is an effect of art.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5234
The proof that he was never my doctor is that I'm still alive.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5235
Make friends quick to censor you.

Nicolas Boileau
(L’Art poétique)

#5236
Front so as to write, learn to think.

Nicolas Boileau
(L’art poétique)

#5237
Ignorance is better than assigned knowledge.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5238
Often the fear of an evil leads us into a worse.

Nicolas Boileau
(L’Art poétique)

#5239
Who lives glad nothing has any thing.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5240
Often too much abundance impoverishes the material.

Nicolas Boileau
(L'art poétique)

#5241
The wisest is he who think not be.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5242
Who lives happy with nothing possesses all things.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5243
Let's; time flees, and dragging us with itself.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5244
A new thought: instead, it's a thought that had to come to everyone, and that someone thinks the first to express.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5245
The painful burden of having nothing to do.

Nicolas Boileau
(Epîtres)

#5246
Like that we suggest to you, and not that we rent to you.

Nicolas Boileau
(L’art poétique)

#5247
A fool always finds a greater fool who admire him.

Nicolas Boileau
(L’art poétique)

#5248
Mind tired easily, if the heart is sincere.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

#5249
The rhyme is a slave and should only obey.

Nicolas Boileau
(Source inconnue)

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