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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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"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 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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"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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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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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Happiness
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."
Man
"The instinct is not completely satisfied unless a man's whole being, mental quite as much as physical, enters into the relation. Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give; unconsciously, if not consciously, they feel this and the resulting disappointment inclines them towards envy, oppression, and cruelty."
Affection
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
Fear
"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."
Science
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
Life
"Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical."
Logic
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Doubt
"For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau."
Philosophy
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
Censorship
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