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 The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux burden No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux able limits writing Greatest fools are the most often satisfied. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux fools-and-wise fool satisfied If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ancestry fire life Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux graves light happiness But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux delight moral age He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux can-not please world Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux admire ignorance science A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux dinner eating To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux yield support rights A fop sometimes gives important advice. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux important advice giving Who lives content with little possesses everything. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux simple-living simple littles What is conceived well is expressed clearly. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux wells simplicity Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux honest persons praise Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux advise praise friendship Happy the poet who with ease can steer Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux poet gay ease Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux suggestions fool sometimes Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ugly gold A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux humour admire fool Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux lovely truth-is truth
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