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«Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.»
«The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
avenues, Avenue of, benefactor, benefactors, esteemed, inoffensive, obstruction, obstructions, open up, prospect, remove, sweetest, The Avenue
«The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! / Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
comparable, earthen, esteemed, give suck, ostrich, pitchers, suck, The Ostrich
«The great warriors will think that you have retreated from the battle out of fear. Those who have greatly esteemed you will lose respect for you.»
«Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.»
«Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Pride,
Shame
| Keywords:
achieves, attaches, automatically, esteemed, estimation, estimations, highly, humiliation, humiliations, inferior, involved, losing, rating, ratings, sets, shame, status, superiority, undue
«That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
curried, curries, curry, esteemed, fawn, fawning, fawns, gratifying, indulges, presentiment, statesman
«Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life»
«The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Affection,
Happiness,
Heart
| Keywords:
affections, esteemed, pouring, pour forth
«There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.»
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