What did Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux mean by: Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France Copy
+ 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
+ A fop sometimes gives important advice. Feraz Zeid, June 21, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Advice, Important, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Beach, Honor, Islands, 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
+ When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. Feraz Zeid, July 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Envy, Vices, Virtue, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair. Feraz Zeid, August 8, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Lovely, 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
+ Whate’er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Ease, Flow, 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
