# Quote — Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

> Unhappiness makes people vulnerable, incessant suffering unjust. Just as in the relations between a creditor and a debtor there is always an element of the disagreeable that can never be overcome, for the very reason that the one is irrevocably committed to the role of giver and the other to that of receiver, so in a sick person a latent feeling of resentment at every obvious sign of consideration is always ready to burst forth.

- 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/unhappiness-makes-people

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> One can run away from anything but oneself.

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> 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.

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

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