67 Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

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

In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

A fop sometimes gives important advice.

It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.