#contempt

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt. ↗

— Plutarch

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. ↗

— Arthur Murphy

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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