67 Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
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Truth has not such an urgent air.
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
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Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.
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Who lives content with little possesses everything.
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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
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Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
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Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.
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