L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté : Mais tout… - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté :
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), commonly called Boileau, was a French poet and critic.

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Alternative Names: Boileau • Nicolas Boileau • Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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In spite of every sage whom Greece can show,
Unerring wisdom never dwelt below;
Folly in all of every age we see,
The only difference lies in the degree.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness:
But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté : Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté. - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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