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Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

— Jacopo Sannazaro Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

L'invidia, figliuol mio, se stessa macera,
E si dilegua come agnel per fascino.

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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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