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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Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly,
Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky,
From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan,
I really think the greatest fool is man.

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.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

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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