Envy Quotes

Envy Quotes

Bertrand Russell

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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, ...

Samuel Johnson

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Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Thomas Fuller

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Nothing sharpens sight like envy

Robert Lembke

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Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.

Arthur Chapman

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Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores

Frank Tyger

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You can't be envious and happy at the same time

Titus Livy

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Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Saint John Chrysostom

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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

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