"One such mental disease, that immediately suggests itself to one, is curiosity, the desire to know other people's troubles, a disease that seems neither free from envy nor malignity.
"Malignant wretch,
why art so keen to mark
Thy neighbour's fault,
and seest not thine own?"
Shift your view, and turn your curiosity so as to look inwards: if you delight to study the history of evils, you have copious material at home, "as much as there is water in the Alizon, or leaves on the oak," such a quantity of faults will you find in your own life, and passions in your soul, and shortcomings in your duty."
- Plutarch. Morals. 1st Century Greek Philosopher
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