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They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn’t lasting.
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Charm Expression Fact Lying
Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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Haste Man Marriage Regret
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Cultivation Interest People
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE

Manage Talk Understand
Long is the road from conception to completion.
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Complete Road
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
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Home Lover Stand
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman
The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
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Man Precise Smart
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Comedy Correct Man Myself Purpose Vice
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
In order to prove a friend to one’s guests, frugality must reign in one’s meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
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Assurance Education Illiterate Myself
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
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Blind Clear Liberty Sight
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
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.
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Cheating Hold Infidelity
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Assassination’s the fastest way.
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Assassination Death Fast Murder Way
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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Offend Public Secret Sin
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself

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