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Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Moliere

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
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Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Best Insult Man Patience Reply Wisdom
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.
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Dance Man Necessary
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
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Karma Secret
All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
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Perfection Quite Reason Sober Wisdom
Time has nothing to do with the matter.
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Substance Time
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love

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