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The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.

Helmut Schoeck

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Helmut Schoeck
Age: 70 †
Born: 1922
Born: July 3
Died: 1993
Died: February 2
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Gratz
Envious
Shown
Kindness
Worse
Becomes
Men

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Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.
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We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.
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