Borne Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “Everything can be borne except contempt.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borne Borne Contempt Contempt Scorn
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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The model sanctuary was borne of a complex, political, societal debate. It was proposed to us from various bodies that we give models medicals… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
The entire political elite has mismanaged the Indian economy for the last 50 years. You cannot solve a crisis that is borne as a… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
