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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moliere

Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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Esteem Meaning Preference
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe
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Breathe Draw Mindset People Right
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
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Action Responsibility Silence
There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.
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Age People Praise
Sometimes I feel something akin to rage At the corrupted morals of this age!
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Age Feeling Moral Myself Time
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
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Believe Mathematics
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
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Cruelty Doubt Mistake Passion Truth Worst
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence

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