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"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
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"Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."
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"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
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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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"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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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"Envy yearns to find flaws."
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"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 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
"If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth."
Truth
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
Society
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
Truth
"The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another."
Man
"By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy."
Envy
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
Conscience
"Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible."
God
"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
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