Envy Another Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

More Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
• Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
• With poverty everything becomes frightful.
• Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive…
• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
• However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
• Who lives content with little possesses everything.
• Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
• The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
• No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
• Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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