The dupe of friendship and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment and at last despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we don't believe in it at all.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise and more often despise what we really fear.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

Physical courage which despises all danger will make a man brave in one way and moral courage which despises all opinion will make a man brave in another.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.