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"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
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"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
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"As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things."
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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
Books
"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
Death
"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."
Man
"Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor."
Honesty
"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."
Money
"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
Happiness
"Where the law ends tyranny begins."
Law
"Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy."
Friendship
"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
Envy
"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."
Heart
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