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• I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Thinking, Vanity

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.

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• Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

  Plutarch

  Done, May, Said

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• Never despise what you don't understand.

  William Penn

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• Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
  Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

  Horace

  Wise, Strong, Freedom

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• However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

  Periander

  Humble, Should, Position

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• Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Cowardice, Command

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Men, Vices

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• A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food.
  [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

  Horace

  Common, Eating, Empty

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Hatred, Self Hatred

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• He will have true glory who despises it.

  Livy

  Glory

  "History of Rome" by Livy, Book XXII, sec. 39,

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• We often despise what is most useful to us.

  Aesop

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.26, Pelekanos Books

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• A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.

  Mencius

  Men, Firsts

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.175

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• Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers.

  Pythagoras

  Body, Want, Helpers

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Family, Children, Parent

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• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Confusion

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• I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

  Conrad Veidt

  Business, Stupid, Hate

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• Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.

  Theodor Herzl

  Country, Hate, Humanity

  Theodor Herzl (1962). “The diaries of Theodor Herzl”

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• I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

  Robert Walpole

  Effort, Patriot, Disdain

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• No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

  Otto Weininger

  Women, Thinking, Opinion

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.236, Рипол Классик

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• For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

  Thucydides

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

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• The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

  Andre Malraux

  Self Esteem, Hell, Force

  "Man's Fate". Book by André Malraux, 1933.

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• Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Strong, Race, White

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

  Josh Billings

  Hate, Advice, Rebellious

  "Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings".

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• Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

  Allan Massie

  War, Men, Soldier

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

  George Mason

  Slave, Poor, Labor

  George Mason's remarks at the debates in the Federal Convention (August 22, 1787) as quoted in "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention Which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787, Volume 2" edited by James Madison and Gaillard Hunt, 1908.

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