Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. – Nicholas Boileau
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you. – Nicholas Boileau
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicholas Boileau
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. – Joseph Mazzini