Quotes about envy
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."
Antisthenes on envy
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"None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy."
Bacon, Francis on envy
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"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."
Browne, Sir Thomas on envy
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."
Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"Nothing sharpens sight like envy."
Fuller, Thomas on envy
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"Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise."
Gay, John on envy
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"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."
Gracian, Baltasar on envy
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"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."
Herodotus on envy
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"He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living."
Horace on envy
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Johnson, Samuel on envy
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"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on envy
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"There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man."
Marx, Groucho on envy
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"Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him."
Ovid on envy
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"Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself."
Proverb, Danish on envy
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"Envy eats nothing, but its own heart."
Proverb, German on envy
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
Shakespeare, William on envy
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."
Twain, Mark on envy
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"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
Vidal, Gore on envy
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"The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power."
Berger, John
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