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“If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Title: Wikiquote: Arthur Schopenhauer
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E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230

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