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Ovid

"Envy aims very high."

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Donna Grant

"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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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."

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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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."

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