# Quote — Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

> In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

- Author: [Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md)
- Book: [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/in-some-mysterious

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> One can run away from anything but oneself.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/one-can-run.md)

> No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/no-envy-is-more.md)

> The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/the-heart-is-able.md)