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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.
View quotes by Sallust

Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
View quotes by John Gay

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
View quotes by Heraclitus

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy
View quotes by Ivan Illich

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
View quotes by Max Beerbohm

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy... Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. (Entertaining Mr Sloane)
View quotes by Joe Orton

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
View quotes by Socrates

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
View quotes by Oscar Levant

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
View quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
View quotes by Baltasar Gracian

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge
View quotes by Iris Murdoch

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
View quotes by Tacitus

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Browne

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
View quotes by Theodore Roosevelt

I don't envy the driver and I don't think the American people will care to ride in his bus very far.
View quotes by Adlai E Stevenson

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.
View quotes by William Hazlitt

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
View quotes by Harold Coffin

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes



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