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