Plutarch Quotes About Envy
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For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
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When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
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