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"Envy like fire always makes for the highest points."
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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."
"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."
"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
"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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"It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted."
"Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own."
"The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom."
"This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions."
"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness."
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