Famous Quotes / Nicholas Boileau
16 Quotations by Nicholas Boileau
- 1. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
- 2. Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
- 3. Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.
- 4. Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
- 5. He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
- 6. Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
- 7. However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
- 8. If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
- 9. No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
- 10. No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
- 11. Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
- 12. Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
- 13. The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
- 14. What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
- 15. Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
- 16. Who is content with nothing possesses all things.