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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
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Fruit Growth Slow Tree
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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Artist Fate Fools Himself Ignorance Vulgar Work
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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Blame Maintain Name Smile Truth Virtue
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
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
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
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Capacity Limitation Occasion
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Goodness Heaven Known Myself Talk
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

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