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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Moliere

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
MOLIERE

Conquer Gold Love War
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
MOLIERE

Change Clothes Current Follow Man Taste
How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE

Easy Fools Love Ourselves
Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.
MOLIERE

Consistent Ridiculous Suitable
Perfect reason avoids all extremes.
MOLIERE

Avoid Extreme Perfection Reason
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE

Fruit Love Marriage
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate’s affection.
MOLIERE

Affection Beautiful Husband Wife
Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?
MOLIERE

Greatness Rule Simplicity
They would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.
MOLIERE

Blind Clear Liberty Sight
I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.
MOLIERE

Medicine Money Trade Yourself
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son’s offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
MOLIERE

Easy Father Regret Son Vanish
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.
MOLIERE

Forever Hate Humanity Myself Price
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.
MOLIERE

Eat Evidence Food Guest Live Order
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
MOLIERE

Heart Integrity Virtue
There’s nothing quite like tobacco: it’s the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn’t deserve to live.
MOLIERE

Deserve Drugs Live Passion Quite
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself

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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