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Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (French: [nikɔla bwalo depʁeo]; 1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was greatly influenced by Horace.

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A fool can always find a greater fool who admires him.

Admire, Admires, Fool, Greater

The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.

Fool, Fools, Greatest, Oft, Satisfied

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. ]

Ease, Gay, Passer, Poet, Vers

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Able, Limit, Limits, Write, Writing

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

Fancy, Man, Men, Wisdom, Wisest, Wisest Man

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

Boredom, Insipid, Repeated, Speech, Tedious

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

Enough, Thinking, Veils, Vices, Word, Zeal

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Degree, Degrees, Differ, Effort, Fools, Men

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

Everything, Frightful, Poor, Poverty, Touches

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

Heaven, Rights, Support, Yield

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.

Generally, Inspirational, Learning, Man, Wisdom, Wisest

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Truth, Lovely, Truth Is, Fair, Nothing

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Break Up, Fools, Fools Day, Glasses, Shut, Wish

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

Beauty, Gold, Lends, Touch, Ugly

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Writing, Editing, Three, Four, Write

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Admire, Finds, Fool, Greater, Humour

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Burden, Dreadful, Having, Nothing

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

Fool, Good, Sometimes, Suggestion, Suggestions

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

Back, Practice, Times, Twenties, Twenty, Workshops

A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.

Dinner, Eating, Worth

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