"There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy."
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"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."
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"Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell."
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"Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system."
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"Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations."
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"Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride."
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"Far less envy in America than in France."
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"He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?"
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"Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others."
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"The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before."
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"Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard."
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
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"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."
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"Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern."
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"I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies."
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"There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more."
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"And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good."
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"The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one."
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"Envy, the attendant of the empty mind."
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"Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate."
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