Nicholas Boileau
» Ancestry » “If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.”
» Fools and Foolishness » “Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.”
» Fools and Foolishness » “However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”
» Fools and Foolishness » “A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
» Honor » “Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”
» Praise » “Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.”
» Praise » “Praising an honest person who doesn’t deserve it, always wounds them.”
» Reason » “Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.”
» Simplicity » “What is conceived well is expressed clearly.”
» Wisdom » “The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.”
» Writers and Writing » “No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
» Writers and Writing » “He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
