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«Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.»
«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.»
Author: Otto Weininger (Philosopher) | Keywords: despise, retain
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
«O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.»
Author: William Penn (Founder) | Keywords: despise, oppose
«They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.»
Author: Boris Pasternak | Keywords: despise
«That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.»
«The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.»
«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.»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | About: Leadership | Keywords: despise, revere, revering, wick, wicked
«We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.»
«We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.»

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