Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.…

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt. ✨ Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two, p.218, Courier Corporation
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