The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. The Remarkable Rocket
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position. The Karamazov Brothers
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." The Analects of Confucius
This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries. Book VII
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