Quote of Seneca - No man is despised by another...
Biography - Seneca:
Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
Note
Quote source: De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes for: Contempt
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
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