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Truth has not such an urgent air.
Something of calumny always sticks.
At times truth may not seem probable.
A fop sometimes gives important advice.
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.
With poverty everything becomes frightful.
Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.
The greatest fools are oft the most satisfied.
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.
Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.
Who lives content with little possesses everything.
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.
It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.
Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.
At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.