By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.
Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.
Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.
He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or that, or sometimes loving, sometimes hating one and the same man. Blessed is the man who can love all men equally.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.
