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

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

Esteem Hold Preference
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Amuse Comedy Correct Men
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
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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Assurance Creature Weird Yourself
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
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Knowledge Known
Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.
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Culture Hope
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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Betrayal Bitter Heart Honesty Seek Vice World Wrong
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
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Medicine Money Trade Yourself
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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Bad Oneself Poetry Writing
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
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Compromise Heaven Pleasure True

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