Estimable Quotes
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Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.
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Would you be esteemed? live with persons that are estimable.
— Marquise de Lambert, An Essay on Friendship, 1732), p. 57.
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem and in my esteem age is not estimable.
— Lord Byron, from The Works of Lord Byron, ed. Rowland E. Prothero (1901), vol. V: Letters and Journals, ch. XXIII: "Detached Thoughts" (1821-10-15 – 1822-05-18), paragraph 72 (p. 445)
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Physicians.
