What did Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux mean by: When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France Copy
+ He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Can Not, 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
+ No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. Feraz Zeid, October 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Limits, Writing, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ A warmed-up dinner was never worth much. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Dinner, Eating, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Praising an honest person who doesn’t deserve it, always wounds them. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Honest, Persons, Praise, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Graves, Happiness, Light, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Something of calumny always sticks. Feraz Zeid, September 22, 2023December 26, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 0 - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Poet · France
+ Who lives content with little possesses everything. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, Simple, 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
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. 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
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. - Jean Racine Playwright · France
