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"Is not ill-humour in fact our own inner displeasure at our o..." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Is not ill-humour in fact our own inner displeasure at our own unworthiness, a feeling of discontent with ourselves, which is always related to envy, which in turn is stirred up by foolish vanity? We see people who are happy and whose happiness is not of our making, and we cannot stand it.

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