We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful · 1757
We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.