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Definition of Baseness
Baseness

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

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Baseness Quotations

The nobler a man is, the harder for him to suspect baseness in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
Henry Miller

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
Simone Weil

Baseness Translations

baseness in German is Falschheit
baseness in Spanish is bajeza

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