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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Moliere

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
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
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
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
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Death Knowledge Life Shadow
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
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Oneself Talk Word
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Man’s greatest weakness is his love for life.
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Greatness Life Love Man Weakness

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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