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The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Kindness
Men
Envious
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The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Men
Break A Leg
Thinking
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Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Men
Envy
Supernatural Beings
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Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Men
Envy
Intense
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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Achievement
Envy
Reflection
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To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Atheism
Envy
Years
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Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
Helmut Schoeck / Writer
Causes
Envy
Thinking
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