Character Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.

— Paul Eipper

Some empirical feelings, such as sympathy, are indispensable parts of certain moral virtues.

— Allen W. Wood

“...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.”

— M.H. Rakib

Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

— Robert Lembke

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

— George Sand

Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

— Lillie Langtry

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself

— Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

— William Hazlitt

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

— Giovanni Ruffini

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the…

— Erich Fromm

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we…

— William Godwin