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“Because your appetites are fixed on things that, divided, lessen each one's share, envy's bellows pushes breath into your sighs.

'But if love for the highest sphere could turn your longings toward heavenly things, then fear of sharing would pass from your hearts.

'For there above, when more souls speak of ours, the more of goodness each one owns, the more of love is burning in that cloister?'”

“'My blood was so consumed by envy that, had I seen a man take joy in life, you would have seen my skin turn livid.”