Baseness Quote by Leonardo da Vinci Download Open image “The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.” — Leonardo da Vinci ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseness Dignity Men Respect
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to… — Mencius Copy Share Image
For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect. — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their… — Al-Maʿarri 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
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers 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; but, sir,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness. — Lyndon B. Johnson 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
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty,… — H. G. Wells 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
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.… — John Walford Copy Share Image
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