"Better not to exist than live basely." — Sophocles
"Better not to exist than live basely."
More Basely Quotes
- If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been… — Patrick Henry
- And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace… — William Gurnall
- Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered. — Unknown Author
- I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely. — Sophocles
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid… — Thomas Jefferson
- Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great… — William Makepeace Thackeray
- Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin. — Hesiod
- Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly. — George Will
- the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long. — William Shakespeare
- Not out of right practice comes right thinking, but out of right thinking comes right practice. It matters enormously what… — Annie Besant
- If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been… — Patrick Henry