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"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
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"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
"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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"I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness."
"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long " he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about."
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