“Let’s suppose that man is not stupid… But if he isn’t stupid then he is nonetheless monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. I even think that the best definition of man is this: a being on two legs that is ungrateful. But that’s not all; this is not even his major deficiency; his most major deficiency is his perpetual misbehaviour… It is misbehaviour and therefore also imprudence; for it has long been known that imprudence comes from nothing other than misbehaviour.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
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