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Scoundrels always gain the upper hand over decent people because they treat decent people like scoundrels, and decent people treat scoundrels like decent people.

A fool does not like a smart person, an uneducated person does not like an educated person, an ill-mannered person does not like a well-mannered person, etc. And all this is covered up with some phrase: “I am a simple person ...”, “I do not like philosophizing”, “these are all bookish ideals”, etc. But in the soul there is hatred, envy, a feeling of one’s own inferiority.