"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."

Gay, John on envy
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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

Gracian, Baltasar on envy
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"Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune."

Hazlitt, William on envy   

"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."

Herodotus on envy
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"He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living."

Horace on envy   

"His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises."

Johnson, Samuel on envy   

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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on envy
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"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken."

Aristotle on moderation   

"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on self-esteem
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"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-esteem
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

Ball, Lucille on self-esteem
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"I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. [Psalms 139:14]"

Bible on self-esteem   

"To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem."

Branden, Nathaniel on self-esteem   

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

Buddha on self-esteem
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert on self-esteem
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"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem   

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"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem   

"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

Augustine, St. on moderation
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."

Ciardi, John on moderation   

"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."

Pascal, Blaise on moderation   

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"Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm."

Paul, Jean on moderation
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"Everything in moderation -- including moderation."

Steiman, Harvey on moderation   

"He who drinks a glass a day shall live to die another way."

Stanlicus on moderation   

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on moderation
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"Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess."

Unknown, Source on moderation   

"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."

Willard, Frances E. on moderation   

"Out of moderation a pure happiness springs."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on moderation   

"Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present."

Garrison, William Lloyd on moderation   

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

Colton, Charles Caleb on moderation   

"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem   

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on self-esteem
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"The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own."

Kempis, Thomas on self-esteem
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"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem
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"We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem   

"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on self-esteem   

"Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-esteem   

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."

Locke, John on self-esteem
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"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-esteem
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