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"Envy is an insult to oneself."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
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"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"Talented minds have always been stealthily targeted by mediocre ones."
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"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
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"Envy yearns to find flaws."
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"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."
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"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
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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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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."
Envy
"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."
Conflict
"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."
Friendship
"Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives."
Morality
"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."
Love
"Shadow owes its birth to light."
Independence
"Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee."
Love
"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save."
Love
"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
Intervention
"Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together."
Animals
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