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Nicolas Boileau - From the Activity category:
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Advice category:
A fop sometimes gives important advice. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Beauty category:
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness, but with poverty everything becomes frightful. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Beauty category:
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Boredom category:
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Boredom category:
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Editing category:
Of every four words I write, I strike out three. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Envy category:
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Friendship category:
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Integrity category:
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Limitations category:
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write [or paint or sculpt, etc]. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Nature category:
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Perseverance category:
Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Pleasure category:
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Poetry category:
Happy the poet who with ease can steer / From grave to gay, from lively to severe. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Possessions category:
Who is content with nothing possesses all things. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Practice category:
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Problems category:
Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Time category:
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Trust category:
At times truth may not seem probable. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Truth category:
Truth has not such an urgent air. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Understanding category:
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Wisdom category:
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. (Nicolas Boileau)
Nicolas Boileau - From the Words category:
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon. (Nicolas Boileau)
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