Quotes by Boileau, Nicholas

"However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness   

"Greatest fools are the most often satisfied."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires."

Boileau, Nicholas on ancestry
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"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."

Boileau, Nicholas on honor
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"Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you."

Boileau, Nicholas on praise   

"Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them."

Boileau, Nicholas on praise   

"Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly."

Boileau, Nicholas on reason
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"The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all."

Boileau, Nicholas on wisdom
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"No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write."

Boileau, Nicholas on writers and writing
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"He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write."

Boileau, Nicholas on writers and writing
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