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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

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Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

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