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All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.

Madame Aubain's servant Felicite was the envy of the ladies of Pont-l'Eveque for half a century.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

An Oscar clears the deck of envy and resentment. You think, 'Well, I've got that. I can relax now.'

Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.

After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

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