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"The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring."
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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."

"Envy is the slow poison that finally slaughters peace."

"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."

"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."

"As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."

"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."

"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."

"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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