"Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it,……" — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
"Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them."
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47 Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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- 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…
- 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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