It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to… — Stefan Zweig
It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.
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One can run away from anything but oneself.
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.
The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.
