"The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy."
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"What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves."
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"I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame"
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"If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself."
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"If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not."
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"In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness."
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"I'm a frustrated driver. I would love to be out on the track instead of them. I look at them with envy."
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"In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little."
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