A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Never to despise in myself what I have been taught
to despise. Nor to despise the other.
Not to despise the it. To make this relation
with the it: to know that I am it.
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
If we keep on talking about masculine and feminine and following those stereotypes, then we will make women suppress and despise their so called masculine qualities and men suppress and despise their so called feminine ones, and that's where all the trouble starts.
I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.
there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.
To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.
A man must first despise himself, and then others will despise him.
Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.
Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.
We cannot hate those who we despise.
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