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"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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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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"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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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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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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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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"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
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"There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards."
Man
"No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds."
Crime
"Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond."
Nature
"No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority."
Law
"The sun has not yet set for all time."
Time
"A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself."
Society
"They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women."
Man
"Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes."
Man
"There are laws for peace as well as war."
Peace
"From abundance springs satiety."
Society
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