Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Charles de Saint-Évremond

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French critic Charles de Saint-Évremond.

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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond was a French soldier, hedonist, essayist and literary critic. After 1661, he lived in exile, mainly in England, as a consequence of his attack on French policy at the time of the Peace of the Pyrenees (1659). He is buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster. He wrote for his friends and did not intend his work to be published, although a few of his pieces were leaked in his lifetime. The first full collection of his works was published in London in 1705, after his death.

French - Critic | April 1, 1613 - September 29, 1703

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Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Charles de Saint-Évremond

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Charles de Saint-Évremond

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

Charles de Saint-Évremond