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Nicolas Boileau Quotes

Brief author info: Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711) French poet and critic.

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly, And the words to say it with arrive with ease.

Nicolas Boileau

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Nicolas Boileau

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself, Procure yourself critical friends.

Nicolas Boileau

Honor is like a steep island without a shore: one cannot return once one is outside.

Nicolas Boileau

Who lives content with little possesses everything.

Nicolas Boileau

Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.

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To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

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