Quote by Francis Bacon
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch bu

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. – Francis Bacon

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. – Proverb

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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