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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."
Explore more quotes by George Bancroft
"The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred."
"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."
"Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement."
"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
"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."
"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."
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