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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

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That virtue here below is hated ever; The envious may die, but envy never.

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

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No virtue is equal to the good of others and
no vice greater than hurting others.

Envy destroys good deeds

I will say that no one envies me. Do you believe this or not? No one envies me. [...] I live with my family and, as they say, I don't count your money, please don't count mine.

I may mention one or two characteristic traits as having no virtue whatever, because they are mine by birth, not by acquisition. I have always been singularly free of envy, jealousy, covetousness; I but vaguely understand them. Having no ambition, I have always preferred the success of others to my own, and had more pleasure in it. I never had the least desire for place or prominence, least of all for power; and this was fortunate for me because the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.

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You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.

Nothing can be built on hatred, bitterness, or on vengeance.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

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To the best of my understanding, bigotry, intolerance and hatred are not values, but then faith isn't a virtue either.

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