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