Goethe on resentment

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“With most of us the requisite intensity of passion is not forthcoming without an element of resentment, and common sense and careful observation will, I believe, confirm the opinion that few people who amount to anything are without a good capacity for hostile feeling upon which they draw freely when they need it.”

–Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Augsut 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Wikipedia

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