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All cruelty springs from weakness.”
―
Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
―
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
―
P.G. Wodehouse,
The Adventures of Sally
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert,
Eat, Pray, Love
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Trotsky's Diary In Exile, 1935