“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new”
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“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new”
“To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as soon as one is pitied.”
“A wise traveler never despises his own country”
“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head”
“In politics nothing is contemptible”
“The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action”
“Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false”
“As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible”
“He that deserves nothing should be content with anything”