“On some preference esteem is based;
To esteem everything is to esteem nothing.”

— Molière, The Misanthrope

Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,
Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.
Act I, sc. i
Le Misanthrope (1666)

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