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

Moliere

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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Manage Talk Understand
We are easily duped by those we love.
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Easy Heart Love
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Fruit Love Marriage
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
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Love Money Prostitution Writing Yourself
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
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Greatness Rule Simplicity
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
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.
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Blame Goodness Need Society Virtue
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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Courage Pity Pretend
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
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Learning People Quality
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
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Dance Failure Greatness History Humanity Man Sick Skills Tragedy
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.
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Angry Right Wrong
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share

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