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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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"Many critics are born of envy."
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"Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
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"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."
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"People that criticize the harshest usually are the ones who would trade places the fastest."
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"Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present."
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"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
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"Envy yearns to find flaws."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
Trust


"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."
Nature


"The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction."
Education


"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
Generosity


"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
Heart


"One must steer, not talk."
Talk


"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."
Generosity


"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."
Life


"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
Fortune


"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Books
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