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Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

William Shakespeare

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Samuel Johnson

The follies which a man regrets most are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Claude-Adrien Helvetius

The vices we scoff at in others, we laugh at within ourselves.

Thomas Browne

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of envy's favorite stratagems is the attempt to provoke envy in the envied one.

Leslie Farber

Envy slays itself by its own arrows.

Anonymous

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Wisdom Quote

Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Life Quote

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

Love Quote

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

- G. K. Chesterton

Wise Quote

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

- Aristotle

Happiness Quote

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

- Oscar Wilde

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