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“Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Antisthenes. iv.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 634888d502eca2f2c8746f31cf9171a78082d7576d4db33d54b113d8925e791d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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