People are expected to exhibit unlimited patience toward every form of folly, stupidity, and dullness, while personal merit has to beg pardon for existing or conceal itself altogether; intellectual superiority offends by its very existence without any desire to do so.
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“people are expected to exhibit an unlimited amount of patience towards every form of folly and stupidity perversity and dullness whilst personal Merit has to beg pardon as it were for being present”
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Schopenhauer: Self-Sufficiency is the Key to Happiness | Counsels & Maxims 9— Christopher AnadaleCreated: 8/12/2026, 10:37:02 PM
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