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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Everybody wishes to have something that somebody else has. And that's the root of all sorrows."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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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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"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
Politics
"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."
Poetry
"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin."
Man
"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"
Art
"Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent."
Time
"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."
Blood
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
Poetry
"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late."
Justice
"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."
Happiness
"In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies."
Enemy
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