The Unfortunate Man
"Live among the mentally afflicted and ask yourself whether their eloquent moaning and complaining, their displaying misfortune, does not fundamentally have the object of hurting those who are with them: the pity which these then express is a consolation for the weak and suffering, inasmuch as it shows them that all their weakness notwithstanding, they possess at any rate one power: the power to hurt. In this feeling of superiority of which the manifestation of pity makes him conscious, the unfortunate man gains a sort of pleasure; in the conceit of his imagination he is still of sufficient importance to cause affliction in the world." -Nietzsche
