Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.

Nothing but truth is lovely, nothing fair.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.