A Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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May 25, 1803 - January 18, 1873

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

George Bernard Shaw

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So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

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Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.

Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Michel de Montaigne

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.

Martin Luther

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton

This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.

Neale Donald Walsch

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who knows himself best esteems himself least.

Henry George Bohn

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

William Cowper

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

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