As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Pity Quotes
Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either.
There is no suffering which pity will not insult.
If every man’s internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now!
He that pities another remembers himself.
Pity embedded lies where love hath been.
Pitiful, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
