"An envious man grows lean at another's fatness."

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Horace

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“I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.”
“Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
“The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.”
“When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.”
“Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.183, Northwestern University Press
“People with the purest souls are capable of the greatest evils.”
“Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.”

Source : 'The Will of Matthew Tindal' (1733) p. 23
“We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.”

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