"A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him."
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"All envy is proportionate to desire."
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"So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
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"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home."
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"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."
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"They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom."
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"The heavier crop is ever in others' fields."
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"He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's."
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"The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence."
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"Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it."
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"Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are."
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"Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are."
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"You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free."
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"Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred."
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"The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer."
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"The envious will die, but envy never."
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"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."
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"To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others."
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"The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them."
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"I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids."
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