Esteem Quote by Horace

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

— Horace

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

— Horace

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

— William Shakespeare

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

— Paulo Coelho

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

— Samuel Johnson

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

— Mary Renault

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

— Luc de Clapiers