Quote by Baruch Spinoza
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually mo

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. – Baruch Spinoza

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. – Baruch Spinoza

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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. – Baruch Spinoza

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on Englands account. – Henry Lawson

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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere. – Van Wyck Brooks

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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