| "They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it." »Sallust |
| "Our envy of others devours us most of all." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "envy is the ulcer of the soul." »Socrates |
| "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on." »Oscar Levant |
| "Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him." »Bible |
| "Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope." »Josh Billings |
| "Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion." »Eubie |
| "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." »Aeschylus |
| "envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want." »Robert Bringle |
| "It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you." »Baltasar Gracian |
| "Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace." »Horace |
| "Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." »Aeschylus |
| "Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." »Alighieri Dante |
| "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire." »Dante Alighieri |
| "To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination." »Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. |
| "envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune." »William Hazlitt |
| "Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate." »William Arthur Ward |
| "I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living." »Hal |
| "No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us." »Seneca |
| "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." »Francesco Petrarch |
| "In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed." »Leo C. Rosten |
| "Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." »John Milton |
| "There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it." »Samuel Johnson |
| "The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress." »Unknown |
| "This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." »William Shakespeare |
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