Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 2501

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2501. Such people consider those who have positions, who are hard working, who are upright, not flatterers, as nothing; they spurn, reject and revile them, because they are of a character opposite to their own. For they guess at once that such will reject them. So they do not regard them as friends, but as servants. In short, they are burdensome, that is, nothing but burdens to the commonwealth.


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