It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux More Quotes by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux More Quotes From Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux truth beautiful beauty He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux limits writing art Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux rhyme reason Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux strong dwelling two Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux draws moments time Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux honor islands beach Of every four words I write, I strike out three. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux three editing writing Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux japan men thinking Something of calumny always sticks. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux calumny sticks The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux wisest-man wisdom men Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux poverty poor The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux fool satisfied Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ancestry lines long Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux theatre one-day lasts Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux virtue noble soul Truth has not such an urgent air. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux urgent truth air 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. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux veils vices thinking That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux insipid boredom speech Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux evil With poverty everything becomes frightful. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ending-poverty poverty
