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"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
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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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"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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"Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people."
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"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
Chaos
"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
Change
"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
Fact
"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
Envy
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
Belief
"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
First
"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
Action
"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
Nature
"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."
Evolution
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Quality
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