"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
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"It is easy to despise what you cannot get"
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"Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it."
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"That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves."
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"People generally despise where they flatter."
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"Dangers by being despised grow great."
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"You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him."
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"God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best."
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"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial."
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"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises."
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"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
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"Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it."
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"Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous."
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"Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise."
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"Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother."
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"Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them."
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"From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods."
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"In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike.""
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"Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself."
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"Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian"
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