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"envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time." »Robin Williams
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"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it." »Sallust
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"They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it." »Sallust
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"There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves." »C. C. Colton
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"I want everything. I envy nothing. I love everyone." »Acna
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"Our envy of others devours us most of all." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"envy is the ulcer of the soul." »Socrates
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"Do not envy a sinner you don't know what disaster awaits him." »Bible
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"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope." »Josh Billings
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"envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
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"envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are." »Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973
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"Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope." »Josh Billings
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"I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on." »Oscar Levant
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"There are many roads to hate, but envy is the shortest of them all." »Author Unknown
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"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on." »Oscar Levant
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"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." »Aeschylus
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"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion." »Eubie
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"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world." »Young
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"envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want." »Robert Bringle
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"It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you." »Baltasar Gracian
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"Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man." »Alighieri Dante
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"Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy." »Aeschylus
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"Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire." »Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace." »Horace
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"The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." »Elbert Hubbard
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"envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true." »Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
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"Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire." »Dante Alighieri
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"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.
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"The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions." »Adam Smith
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