Boileau · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 422
Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.Boileau · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 422
Read the saying and check its sourcesMatching text in a source is not a philological review. AI translations are labeled as such.
Wording recorded in the collection; original language not established.
It is intolerable that a silly fool, with nothing but empty birth to boast of, should in his insolence array himself in the merits of others, and vaunt an honour which does not belong to him.Boileau · Book of Wise Sayings · 1893 · n. 239
Read the saying and check its sources