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Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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
When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.
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Purpose Serve Understand
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
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Perfection Reason Sober Wisdom
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.
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Hate Man Mean Oneself Vicious
We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Death Time
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
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
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
It’s an odd job, making decent people laugh.
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Job Laughter People
It is a long road from conception to completion.
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Complete Concept Road
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
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Glory Greatness Hard Time Inspirational Obstacle

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