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  • As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

    Antisthenes: As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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    "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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