Nicholas Boileau

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

— Nicholas Boileau

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

— Nicholas Boileau

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

— Nicholas Boileau

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

— Nicholas Boileau

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

— Nicholas Boileau

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

— Nicholas Boileau

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

— Nicholas Boileau

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.

— Nicholas Boileau

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

— Nicholas Boileau

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

— Nicholas Boileau

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

— Nicholas Boileau