meanness

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is incurable... it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Meanness is incurable... it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. Aristotle

 sometimes happens unintentionally in an interval betwixt one passion and another.

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another. Laurence Sterne

is a reflection of ourselves. A hurtful act is nothing but the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil

is worse than murder --- It is dishonesty... dishonesty is ingratitude... ingratitude is irreligion... irreligion is every species of vice and immorality in human nature.

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty... under dishonesty, ingratitude... under ingratitude, irreligion... and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality in human nature. Laurence Sterne

is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

is related to cruelty in that to be mean requires a certain thoughtlessness; to be cruel, the opposite.

To be mean requires a certain thoughtlessness; to be cruel, the opposite.

is not something that can be corrected --- save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat

Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat

is universal --- dogs bite in every country.

meanness, n.All

meanness