Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice, and dull in every other. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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