"Pity makes suffering contagious...." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.”

“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”

“Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.”

“Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.”

“Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.”

“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”

“If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.”

“It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones.”

“There is no greater disaster than discontent.”