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A worthy man is bound to suffer malice and envy: a man grows in worth so long as he is envied.

— Gottfried von Strassburg

Hazzen unde nîden
daz muoz der biderbe lîden.
der man der werdet al die vrist,
die wîle und er geniten ist.

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