Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.
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Antisthenes, 4.Diogenes Laertius
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
When the sun shouts and people abound
One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze
And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;
Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities
Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster.
Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them,
Then nothing will remain of the iron age
And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem
Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass
In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain...Robinson Jeffers
These hearts rust just as iron rusts; and indeed they are polished through the recitation of the Qur’an.
Holy Prophet Muhammad
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on.
Margaret Thatcher
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Robert South
Laertius, Diogenes
Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier
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