What did Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux mean by: However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France Copy
+ If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Ancestry, Fire, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n’etre pas vraisemblable.] Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Truth, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Humility, Wisdom, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Friendship, Praise, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion. Feraz Zeid, November 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Fool, Suggestions, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ What is conceived well is expressed clearly. Feraz Zeid, September 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Simplicity, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, One Day, Theatre, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied. Feraz Zeid, October 18, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Fool, Satisfied, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
Stupidity is always astounding, no matter how often one encounters it. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead. - Jean le Rond d'Alembert Mathematician and physicist · France
When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert
