# Quote — Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity

> When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

- 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/when-one-does

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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.

[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.

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