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Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our consciousness some fault or inadequacy which we would prefer to have remain unconscious, and therefore without power to disturb our self-complacency.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
understanding they in their turn have played on them. Our soul sometimes takes its own revenge: What we see and hear when agitated by anger we do not see as it is:
Is your animosity towards a person warranted, or is it a reflection of your own insecurities?
Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.
anti-intellectual
Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.
Arrogance is bitterness' favourite mask.
Wit is cultured insolence.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams ... never for reality.
Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.
The taint of arrogance will I not know ...
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Secrets and Malice
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.
Indolence is the devil's cushion.
Inconstancy. - Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.
I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.
ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.
wisdom must lie in a keen self-loathing.
Petty mind mocks.
A disdain full of disgust for those who don't realize that the only reality is each man's soul, and that everything else - the exterior world and other people - is but an unaesthetic nightmare
What was indifference compared to malice?
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several
from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance ... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.
Ignorance; lack of knowledge or lack of curiosity.
In mockery are the seeds of impiety sown.
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
People offend you, irritate you, breathe contempt and malice against you; do not repay them in the same way, but be gentle, meek, and kind, respectful and loving towards those very persons who behave unworthily to you.
There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.
- Lady Susan
dislike in ourselves.
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.
Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.
Insecurity - the basis of most negative human interaction.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity
When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.
Ingratitude is a crime more despicable than revenge, which is only returning evil for evil, while ingratitude returns evil for good.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
insouciance. But there's just something uniquely intimidating about
With Malice Towards None
Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.
The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.
When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.
Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring
The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.
Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
Rudeness, I think, is the worst.
Buggeration and Fuckery
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.
Return animosity with virtue.
One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.
It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.
Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.
Ingratitude is innate to humans.
A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress. For that matter, that is the nature of resentment, the objection we cannot express. It is silence more than the complaint itself that makes the emotion so toxic, like poisons the body won't pee away.
The lack of forgiveness and ingratitude leads unhappiness
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
The world's full of groundless ill will. I'll never understand it, you'll never understand it, but it exists all the same.
Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one's emotions' attempt to contaminate one's opinions.
Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.
Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.
An insult angers me. Being ignored crushes me.
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.
Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.