“If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue”
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Swiss psychologist 1923–2010Related quotes

"A Friend of Mine" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "A Friend of Mine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYaGJ3f28OI (song on YouTube)
“Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?”
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As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192

“Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.”
Kirilov, Part III, Ch. VI, "A busy night"
The Possessed (1872)