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To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be. Charles Caleb Colton
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The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.
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Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Edward Gibbon
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A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness. Bertrand Russell
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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. Agnes Repplier
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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
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No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own. Charlotte Lennox
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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. Charlie Munger
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It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.
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For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule The Dhammapada
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This merger represents an exciting opportunity. It gives us much larger critical mass, but growth doesn't cease with this merger. John Bryant
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It's a great way to give back. Without volunteers, trails would cease to exist. Jeffrey Hunter
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The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love. James Allen
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Actually, there are really only two questions that run through all these cases; 1) does the United States Constitution cease to exist once one crosses the Georgia State line and, 2) if so, what is a governor to do about it? Mike Adams
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Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence. Piet Mondrian
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president. Samantha Power
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.