463.--There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our ene… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SAPIR 861
463.--There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.
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