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- I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and… — Georg Brandes
- 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
- 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
- Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but… — Epictetus
- To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran
- ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman
- I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for… — George Gissing