No one passes in the world as skilled in verse unless he has put up the sign of a poet, a mathematician, etc. But educated people do not want a sign, and draw little distinction between the trade of a poet and that of an embroiderer.

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But those who are ignorant would admire her in this dress, and there are many villages in which she would be taken for the queen; hence we call sonnets made after this model "Village Queens."

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jargon poetical beauty.

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Nothing makes us understand better the ridiculousness of a false sonnet than to consider nature and the standard, and then to imagine a woman or a house made according to that standard.

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but each bad sonnet, for example, on whatever false model it is formed, is just like a woman dressed after that model.

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Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, rooms, dress, etc. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

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There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us.

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All the false beauties which we blame in Cicero have their admirers, and in great number.

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Beauty of omission, of judgment.

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We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting. The rule is uprightness.

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Those honour Nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything, even on theology.

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Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference, and based also on the face of man; whence it happens that symmetry is only wanted in breadth, not in height or depth.

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Miscellaneous. Language.—Those who make antitheses by forcing words are like those who make false windows for symmetry. Their rule is not to speak accurately, but to make apt figures of speech.

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J'aime ça comme mon profil a plein de couleurs ^^

Y a du monde qui n'aime pas les emojis, notamment en raison de l'IA. Mais moi, je continue à les aimer. C'est un peu plate de voir juste deux couleurs lorsqu'on lit. Pour moi, les emojis font partie de l'évolution du langage

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Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

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Eloquence.—It requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

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So much does our perverse lust like to do the contrary of what those wish to obtain from us without giving us pleasure, the coin for which we will do whatever is wanted.

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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

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I had as soon it said that I used words employed before. And in the same way if the same thoughts in a different arrangement do not form a different discourse, no more do the same words in their different arrangement form different thoughts!

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Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better.

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