Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

Burlesque

Powerful

Sermons

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Admire

Fool

Humour

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

Admire

Fool

Plus

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

Advice

Giving

Important

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.

Thinking

Veils

Vices

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

Dinner

Eating

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Degrees

Effort

Men

At times truth may not seem probable.

May

Trust

Truth

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n’etre pas vraisemblable.]

May

Seems

Truth

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Advise

Friendship

Praise

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Able

Admire

Advice

Advise

Age

Air

All Things

Ancestry

Animal

Art

Beach

Beautiful

Beauty

Bigs

Boredom

Break Through

Break Up

Burden

Burlesque

Calumny

Can Not

Committed

Degrees

Delight

Differences

Dinner

Draws

Dwelling

Ease

Eating

Editing

Effort

Ending Poverty

Envy

Evil

Fire

Flow

Fool

Fools And Wise

Fools Day

Friendship

Gay

Giving

Glasses

Gold

Graves

Happiness

Heart

Heaven

Honest

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Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

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.

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

At times truth may not seem probable.

At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n’etre pas vraisemblable.]

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

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