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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

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Bad Goodness
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
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
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Deep Jealous People
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
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Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
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Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
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

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 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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