Famous quotes containing the word esteem:
“We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“It is hard to love those we do not truly esteem; but it is no less so to love those we esteem a great deal more than ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)