Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

    Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
    Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

    And all the popular statesmen say
    That purity built up the State
    And after kept it from decay;
    Admonish us to cling to that
    And let all base ambition be,
    For intellect would make us proud....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)