If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press
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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.