"The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife."
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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
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"In Britain, any degree of success is met with envy and resentment."
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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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"... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation."
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"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
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"Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous."
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"I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles."
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"I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better."
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"I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens."
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"I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself."
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"Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends."
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"Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks."
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"Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him."
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"Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead."
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"I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural."
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"Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect."
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"Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy."
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"It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity."
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"We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy."
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