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“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

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Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.”

World Humans Body Hands Eye Beautiful Perfect Type Highest Models All Things Envy Greek Crowns Human Body Old Greek Phidias

Book:The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain

Source: The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”

“The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.”

Humans Suffering Hate Results Emotion Sadness Disease Envy Manifestation Hypocrisy Anger Hate

Author:Miguel