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

Moliere

To live without loving is not really to live.
MOLIERE

Live Love Wasted
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
All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.
MOLIERE

Prose Verse
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
MOLIERE

Afford Best Employment Human Loyal Nature Opportunity Ourselves Virtue
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
MOLIERE

Couple Perfection Sense Sober Wisdom
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE

Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE

Compromise Heaven Pleasure True
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
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
All is wholesome in the absence of excess.
MOLIERE

Absence Minimalism
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
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE

Man Myself
With a smile we should instruct our youth.
MOLIERE

Instruction Smile Youth
Grammar, which can govern even Kings.
MOLIERE

Government Grammar King
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE

Himself Kill Money

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