Anas El

“Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.”
― Judith Shklar

“That the other suffers must be learned; and it can never be learned completely.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

“Who suffers more? After a personal disagreement and quarrel between a woman and a man, the one party suffers most at the thought of having hurt the other; while that other party suffers most at the thought of not having hurt the first enough; for which reason it tries by tears, sobs, and contorted features, to weigh down the other person’s heart, even afterwards”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

“By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.”
― Claude Adrien Helvétius