Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
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