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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

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Biography - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux:

French poet and critic.
Born: 1636 - Died: 1711
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Who lives content with little possesses everything.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Qui vit content de rien possède toutes choses.




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I am rich in the goods that I can do without.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

He has what he desires who can limit his desires to what is enough.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.

When we work for material ends alone, we build ourselves our own prison.

All that is mine I carry with me.




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To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.





My trade and art is to live.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.











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A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.





Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.





Seek to be counselled, seek not to be praised.












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