NICOLAS BOILEAU QUOTES

French poet & literary critic (1636-1711)

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.

NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX

Satires


With poverty everything becomes frightful.

NICOLAS BOILEAU

Satires