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Nicolas Boileau Quotes

«Great king, cease winning victories, or I shall give up writing.»
«Take fresh heart and never forget that a warmed-up dinner is worth nothing at all.»
«Be a mason instead, if you have a talent for that.»
«Whether one is treating a light or an exalted subject, let the sense and the rhyme always agree.»
«No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.»
«Everywhere my thought offers and exposes itself to the light of day, and my verse, whether good or bad, always says something.»
«Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.»