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		<title>Moliere -- Le Misanthrope, Act 1, sc. 1 (1666) [tr. Wilbur (1954)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALCESTE: Esteem is founded on comparison: To honor all men is to honor none. &#160; [Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde, Et c&#8217;est n&#8217;estimer rien qu&#8217;estimer tout le monde.] (Source (French)). Alternate translations: Preference must be based on esteem, and to esteem every one is to esteem no one. [tr. Van Laun (1878)] Esteem [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">ALCESTE: Esteem is founded on comparison:<br />
To honor all men is to honor none.</p>
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<em>[Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,<br />
Et c&#8217;est n&#8217;estimer rien qu&#8217;estimer tout le monde.]</em></p>
<br><b>Molière</b> (1622–1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]<br><i>Le Misanthrope</i>, Act 1, sc. 1 (1666) [tr. Wilbur (1954)] 
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(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Plays_of_Moli%C3%A8re_in_French_with_a_N/71qHR4Zj1KYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&">Source (French)</a>). Alternate translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>Preference must be based on esteem, and to esteem every one is to esteem no one.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_dramatic_works_of_Moli%C3%A8re/1on2BpTRSJkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22preference%20must%20be%20based%22">Van Laun</a> (1878)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Esteem must be founded on some preference, and to esteem all the world is to esteem no one.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/comedies00molirich/page/392/mode/2up?q=%22founded+on+some+preference%22">Mathew</a> (1890)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Esteem is based on preference; to esteem the whole world alike is to feel no esteem for anyone.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Moli%C3%A8re/wbLfngFjN_MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22esteem%20is%20based%22">Wormeley</a> (1894)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Preference is based on esteem, and to esteem every one is not to esteem anyone.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Plays_of_Moli%C3%A8re_in_French_with_a_N/71qHR4Zj1KYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22based%20on%20esteem%22">Waller</a> (1903)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Real love must rest upon some preference;<br>
You might as well love none, as everybody.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Misanthrope_(Moli%C3%A8re)#:~:text=Real%20love%20must,none%2C%20as%20everybody.">Page</a> (1913)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But true esteem is based on preference; <br>
Esteeming everyone, you esteem nothing.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/eightplaysbymoli00moli/page/224/mode/2up?q=%22true+esteem%22">Bishop</a> (1957)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Esteem, if it be real, means preference,<br>
And when bestowed on all it makes no sense.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/classiccomedies0000unse/page/238/mode/2up?q=%22means+preference%22">Frame</a> (1967)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Familiar_Qutations_A_Collection_of_passa/f1plMLxh5CgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22On+some+preference+esteem+is+based%22&dq=%22On+some+preference+esteem+is+based%22&printsec=frontcover">E.g.</a> (1968)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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