What did Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux mean by: Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France Copy
+ The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Wisdom, Wisest Man, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse. Feraz Zeid, June 6, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Evil, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Gold, Poverty, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Beautiful, Beauty, Truth, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Who is content with nothing possesses all things. Feraz Zeid, September 17, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ A fop sometimes gives important advice. Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Advice, Important, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Ease, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Of every four words I write, I strike out three. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Editing, Writing, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. - Jean Froissart Historian · Belgium
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
