No envy is more mean than that of small-minded beings when they see a neighbor lifted, as though borne aloft by angels, out of the dull drudgery of their common existence; petty spirits are more ready to forgive a prince the most fabulous wealth than a fellow-sufferer beneath the same yoke the smallest degree of freedom. Beware of Pity
Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility. Book VII
Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. Dombey and Son
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. Book IV
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