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Quotation from Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
“in hatred too, which stands to anger like a chronic to an acute disease, a man may indulge with the greatest delight”
Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Human Nature', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897)
On the pleasure of anger and hatred, using a medical distinction between acute and chronic illness.
Citation: "in hatred too, which stands to anger like a chronic to an acute disease, a man may indulge with the greatest delight" — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Human Nature', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897). (id essays-and-aphorisms-q3)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
