Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes
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Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.
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Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
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That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
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Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
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Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
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Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
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When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.