#despise

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#anyone #cannot #child #despises #fooled

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#i #most #people #politics #those

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. ↗

— Annie Besant

#christian #church #despise #evil #greatest

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#known #truly #you

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#biased #despised #favor #god #often

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#both #despises #enslaved #father #him

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. ↗

— Otto Weininger

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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. ↗

— Robert Burns

#character #complaint #cowardly #despised #enduring

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#covered #despised #dupe #find #fool