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People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

Moliere

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.
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Esteem Hold Preference
That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.
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Fine Myself Understand Word
The smallest errors are always the best.
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Best Error Small
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
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Boredom Interest Myself Preference Vice Virtue
One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.
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Easy Humour Moral
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
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Better Greatness Place World
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking
All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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Beard Discrimination Power Sex
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
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine.
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Dinner Food Genuine
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason

People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.

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