Honore de Balzac. Pebbled leather (№ 25381)

Pity is the feeling which is just harder to stand from other people, especially if you do serve a reason for pity. Their hatred is a tonic, it gives meaning to your life, it inspires vengeance, but compassion for us is killing us, it increases our weakness. It - insinuating evil, it is a contempt under the guise of tenderness or the tenderness offensive.