Lesser
Less; smaller; inferior.
Less.
Related Definitions:
Inferior,
Less
Lesser Quotations
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
Plato
Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Jerry Garcia
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
Herodotus
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
William Glasser
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George Orwell
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lesser Translations
lesser in French is petiot
lesser in German is weniger
lesser in Norwegian is minst, mindre
lesser in Spanish is menor
lesser in Swedish is mindre
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