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

Moliere

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
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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Heart Honor Man Noble Wound
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
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Man Myself
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
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Heaven Known Talk
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
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Act Best Blow Forget Pride Success
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.
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Better Death Marriage
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?
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Marriage Pleasure Thinking Yourself
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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Evidence Malicious Mouth Poison
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
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we see ourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.
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Discomfort Mirror Mistake Ourselves Public Stage View
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

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

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