“To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274) I-II, q. 19, art. 5
“His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.”
Bk. XXV, ch. 3
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
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