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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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"Truthfully, there're only a handful of people in this world who really get joy from seeing you happy. Most won't care if you're happy, only if you're miserable like they are. They eat that shit up."
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"Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's."
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"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."
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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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"Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do."
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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."
Society
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
Conscience
"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
Man
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
Truth
"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
Government
"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."
People
"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."
Beauty
"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
Intelligence
"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."
Public
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
Truth
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