Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
Better not to exist than live basely.
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.