A Quote by Publilius Syrus

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt. — © Publilius Syrus
Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

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Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you.
On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.
Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else.
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.
When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion.
The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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