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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
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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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"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
Hope
"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
Time
"Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way."
Dream
"A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself."
Age
"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
Chance
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
Ability
"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."
Evil
"It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards."
Lie
"Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies."
Success
"Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent."
Talent
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