Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Explore popular quotes and sayings by Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste was a French lexicographer born in Paris. He is most famous as the editor of the Dictionnaire universel de la langue française, first published in 1800.

1765 - April 24, 1824
Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. — © Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.
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