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How to use the word baseness in a Sentence?

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

added by Normando
4 years ago

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

– James Russell Lowell

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

– Leon Trotsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

– Bryant H. McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.

– Bryant McGill

added by anonymous
11 years ago

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

– R Chamberlain

added by anonymous
12 years ago

All property which comes to hand by means of violence, or infamy, or baseness, however large it may be, is tainted and unblest. On the other hand, whatever is obtained by honest profit, small though it be, brings a blessing with it.*

– Akhlak-i-Jalali

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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