Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 November 1636
CountryFrance
all-things
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
rights yield support
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
dinner eating
A warmed-up dinner was never worth much.
sin committed monstrous
It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.
nature spring break-through
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.
time moments draws
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.