“Dealing with egotists is so corrupting because we gradually fall into their mistakes out of self-defense.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Der Umgang mit einem Egoisten ist darum so verderblich, weil die Notwehr uns allmählich zwingt, in seine Fehler zu verfallen.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 45.

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