Estimation

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Many men and many women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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