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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
Envy,
"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."
"Many critics are born of envy."
Explore more quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."
"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."
"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained."
"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."
"But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write."
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