To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).

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