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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

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
MOLIERE

Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
MOLIERE

Karma Secret
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE

Forever Friendship Myself
Ah, there are no longer any children!
MOLIERE

Children Growth One Liner
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
MOLIERE

People Praise Season Swallow
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
MOLIERE

Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE

Fruit Love Marriage
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Frankly, it’s good enough to lock up in a drawer.
MOLIERE

Draw Enough Goodness
I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.
MOLIERE

Believe Mathematics
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE

Courage Pity Pretend
My heavens! I’ve been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.
MOLIERE

Heaven Known Talk
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
MOLIERE

Advantage Advice Annoy Art Greatness Yourself
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE

Preference Vice Virtue

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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