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“Envy is a kind of praise.”
“Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.”
“Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.”
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.”
“If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.”
“Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.”
“The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.”
“You can't be envious and happy at the same time.”
“The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.”
“Friendship which is of its nature a delicate thing fastidious slow of growth is easily checked will hesitate demur recoil where love good old blustering love bowls ahead and blunders throu...”
“It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.”
“Silence sweeter is than speech.”
“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”
“Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.”
“True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.”
“The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.”
“Let us accept truth even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
“Every stage of life has its troubles and no man is content with his own age.”
“When you don't have any money the problem is food. When you have money it's sex. When you have both it's health. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.”
