Your chastity is but a more subtle kind of corruption, and your contempt for the world is but the impotence of your hatred against it![Ta chasteté n’est qu’une corruption plus subtile, et ce mépris du monde l’impuissance de ta haine contre lui!]
Pride dines upon Vanity, sups on Contempt.
Hatred comes from the heart, contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.[Haß ist Sache des Herzens, Verachtung des Kopfs. Das Ich hat keines von beiden in seiner Gewalt.]
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Art thou base, common and popular?
