If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at. - Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation Quotes)

If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.[Ist Einer dumm, so entschuldigt man ihn damit, daß er nicht dafür kann: aber wollte man Den, der schlecht ist, eben damit entschuldigen; so würde man ausgelacht werden.]

Source:(Dover, ed. 1966), Volume II, Chapter XIX. On the Primacy of the Will in Self-Consciousness, Page 230
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