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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."
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"Success causes others to be jealous and hate."
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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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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it - or they think you have."
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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."
Philosophy
"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
Man
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
Philosophy
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
Mistake
"We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears."
Philosophy
"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
Man
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
Love
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
People
"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
Wisdom
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
People
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