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Jealousy and Envy
Thomas Sowell
Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, “social justice.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy--ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!
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Friedrich Nietzsche
You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.
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Platão
Of necessity, the most like are most full of envy, strife, and hatred of one another, and the most unlike of friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak requires the aid of the strong, and the sick man of the physician; everyone who knows not has to love and court him who knows.
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François de La Rochefoucauld
We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shame-faced passion we never dare acknowledge.
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William Hazlitt
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.
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Ésquilo
Few men have the strength of character to rejoice in a friend’s success without a touch of envy.
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George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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Maya Angelou
Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
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Johnny Carson
Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.
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