WIST - Schopenhauer, Arthur | "Further Psychological Observations," Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism [tr. Saunders (1851)]

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or thinks he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles. Alternate translation: What makes a man hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, sufficient in his own...