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The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.
I have these huge, pointed ears. They're like three times the size of Orlando Bloom's ears. And I think he has ear envy, I love my ears.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
every one of us possesses a gene predisposing us toward rivalry, competition, and fits of envy with any past, present, or future siblings.
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
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.
There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
I don't envy these kids these days. Between Instagram and Twitter... the easiest thing is just take your phone off the hook, and you're good.
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.
America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.
Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.
Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?
People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.
If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.
I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.
I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
Anger he smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor. Queen Jealousy, envy waits behind him, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.