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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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Love Quote

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

- Mother Teresa

Life Quote

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

Funny Quote

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

- Mark Twain

Dreams Quote

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

- Marilyn Monroe

Truth Quote

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

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