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Nicolas Boileau Quotes

Brief author info: Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) French poet and critic.

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly, And the words to say it with arrive with ease.

Nicolas Boileau

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

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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself, Procure yourself critical friends.

Nicolas Boileau

Honor is like a steep island without a shore: one cannot return once one is outside.

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Who lives content with little possesses everything.

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Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

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A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.

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