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Gula carum tributem exigit, sed vilissimum reddit, quia quanto sunt delicaciora cibavia, tanto fetidiora sunt stercora. Gluttony demands a heavy tribute but gives the basest returns: the more delicate the food, the more reeking the dung.
Pope Innocent III
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He must teach himself that the basest of all things isto be afraid and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop foranything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomedlove and honour and pityand compassion and sacrifice.


— 1950  Nobel prize acceptance speech.

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…since God has revealed himself as a Father, we would be guilty of the basest ingratitude if we did not behave as his children.

john calvin

— Page 19 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)

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The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Erich Fromm

— Ch. 1 (Escape from Freedom (1941))

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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.

john ruskin

— Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).

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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.

Tacitus

— Chapter 6. (Germania (98))

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[An attorney] can find it consistent with his dignity to turn wrong into right, and right into wrong, to abet a lie, nay to create, disseminate, and with all the play of his wit, give strength to the basest of lies, on behalf of the basest of scoundrels.

Anthony Trollope

— The New Zealander (Oxford, 1965), p. 63. Written 1855-6, published posthumously 1965.

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The basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act III, scene 7, line 17.

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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.


— Chapter 6. (Germania (98))

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Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.


— Lear, Scene IV

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