black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
MOLIERE

Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
We are easily duped by those we love.
MOLIERE

Easy Heart Love
Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE

Complete Road
I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married.
MOLIERE

Ancestor Father Marriage Myself
A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.
MOLIERE

Cure Husband Woman
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
MOLIERE

Harm Ourselves Reaction Ultimate
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE

Beautiful Feed Goodness Language
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
MOLIERE

Cultivation Interest People
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
MOLIERE

Fashion Hypocrisy Pass Vice Virtue
Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
MOLIERE

Death Ourselves
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
MOLIERE

Drive Home Reason
The road is long fro the project to its completion.
MOLIERE

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

Esteem Hold Preference
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
MOLIERE

Myself Poet Trouble Writing
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

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Moliere Quotes