25 ordspråk av Nicholas Boileau
Nicholas Boileau
 “Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.” [That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.] |
| A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him |
| At last came Malherbe, and made verse run smoothly - the first in France to do so. |
| Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. |
| Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again. |
| Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly. |
| Greatest fools are the most often satisfied. |
| He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. |
| Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return |
| Honour is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. |
| However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. |
| If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. |
| Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. |
| No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. |
| Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them. |
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