Goal or Resentment?, The Mechanics of Virtue, aphorism 280

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Goal or Resentment? Progress or Regression? The goal organizes, the enemy organizes, and the lack of either scatters our force. The only pole with which to vault over resentment is a secure grip on a future goal and to have before one a supreme obstacle ... an enemy so exalted that all petty objects of spite are not really leapt over for the fact that they are leapt over incidentally.

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