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Demanding pity as a sign of arrogance. There are people, who, when they become angry and offend others, demand first that nothing be held against them, and second, that they be pitied because they are prey to such violent attacks. Human arrogance can go that far.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human
Section Six: Man in Society - Aphorism # 358

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