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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
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"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."
"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."
"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."
"Envy is a much natural byproduct when your childhood isn't the way it is supposed to be."
"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
"Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken."
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"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."
"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
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