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 To avenge one's self on an enemy, is to receive a second life.

A neighbor is apt to look on our affairs with an evil eye.

Slander is more injurious than open violence.

The ear bears an injury better than the eye.

It is easier to do an injury than bear one.

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.

He confers a double favor on the needy, who gives in season.

Poverty needs little; avarice every thing.

The madman thinks the rest of the world crazy.

Cupidity in the midst of riches is an armed indigence.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

To do good you should know what good is.

There is more venom than truth in the words of envy.

The rancor of envy is concealed, but is none the less hostile.

To withstand the assaults of envy, you must be either a hero or a saint.