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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
