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Inspirational Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
- With poverty everything becomes frightful.
- A fool always finds a greater 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.
- Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
- He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but can- not please himself.
- He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
- Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
- Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
- What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
- Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
- Something of calumny always sticks.
- A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
- When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
- Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
- That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
- At times truth may not seem probable.
- Truth has not such an urgent air.
- Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
- A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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