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

Moliere

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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Eat Live Oneself
We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
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Judgment Ourselves
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
The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
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Offend Public Scandal Secret Sin
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Things are only worth what you make them worth.
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Value Worth Yourself
I live on good soup, not on fine words.
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Fine Goodness Live Soup Word
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
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Delight Honor Pleasure Reward
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.
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Difficult Obstacle Powerful Virtue
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
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Direct Error Haste Reason
One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
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Easy Fools Love Oneself
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
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Control Grammar King
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
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Beautiful Hook Intelligence
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
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Goodness Oneself Thinking
Its as if you think you’d never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined.
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Reason Sacred Thinking

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