“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.”
Adam Smith book The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Section II, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I
“Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.”
— Thomas Mann, book The Magic Mountain
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5
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