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"Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof."
"Genius can never despise labour."
"Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise"
"I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!"
"What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me."
"Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself."
"Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible."
"I despise people who can't control themselves."
"No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself."
"I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush."
"Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain?"
"He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature."
"Where one despises, one cannot wage war."
