67 Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

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.

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.