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is a gilded sheath that covers the dagger of envy.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

is a great and strong foundation for improvement of character.

Pity is a great and strong foundation for improvement of character. Shmuel David Luzzatto

Altruism is a reaction formation against selfishness, and pity a reaction formation against cruelty (Freud 1915b, SE l4:281).

is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man, a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves, and the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man... it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions... so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is a weakness demanded in Christian morality. The pitier often has ulterior motives, it is an increase in the sum total of suffering in the word, and causes sickness instead one should should steel oneself against hardness.

is, along with admiration, the only feeling that human affairs inspire in noble hearts.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.Anatole France

is, along with irony, a good counselor: Irony, in smiling, makes life pleasurable while pity, who cries, makes it sacred.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable... the other, who cries, makes it sacred.Anatole France

is an emotion in times of catastrophe that dilutes and distracts utter fear, dread, and terror. It is an emotion issued only at a distance to the undeserved misfortune.

The concern is that the images to be devised won't be sufficiently upsetting: not concrete, not detailed enough. Pity can entail a moral judgement if, as Aristotle maintains, pity is considered to be the emotion that we owe only to those enduring undeserved misfortune. But pity, far from being the natural twin of fear in the dramas of catastrophic misfortune, seems diluted distracted by fear, while fear (dread, terror) usually manages to swamp pity. Leonardo is suggesting that the artist's gaze be, literally, pitiless. The image should appall, and in that terribilità lies a challenging kind of beauty.' Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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