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Image of Paramahansa Yogananda
Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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Image of George Orwell
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
- George Orwell
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Image of Laozi
Not praising the deserving prevents envy.
- Laozi
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Image of Philip Sidney
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.
- Philip Sidney
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Image of Regina Brett
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
- Regina Brett
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Image of St. Catherine of Siena
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
- St. Catherine of Siena
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Image of Louise Bourgeois
Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
- Louise Bourgeois
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Image of William Shakespeare
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Lisa Unger
The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.
- Lisa Unger
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Herbert Spencer
There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.
- Herbert Spencer
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Image of John Berger
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
- John Berger
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Image of Alexander Pope
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Alexander Pope
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Peter S. Beagle
Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)
- Peter S. Beagle
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Alexandra Adornetto
Envy is a deadly sin!
- Alexandra Adornetto
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Image of Ovid
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
- Ovid
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Julie James
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.
- Julie James
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Image of Hannah More
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
- Hannah More
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Image of John Milton
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
- John Milton
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Thomas Sowell
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
- Thomas Sowell
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Image of Thomas Sowell
Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
- Thomas Sowell
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Image of Bertrand Russell
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Ali ibn Abi Talib
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Image of Ludwig von Mises
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
- Ludwig von Mises
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Image of William Graham Sumner
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
- William Graham Sumner
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Image of Pythagoras
Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.
- Pythagoras
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Image of Plutarch
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
- Plutarch
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Image of Robert Greene
Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
- Robert Greene
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Image of Edward Young
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!
- Edward Young
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Image of Sathya Sai Baba
Do not develop jealousy, hatred or envy on any count.
- Sathya Sai Baba
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Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Image of Horace
If the crow had been satisfied to eat his prey in silence, he would have had more meat and less quarreling and envy.
- Horace
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Jonathan Swift
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Anna Godbersen
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
- Anna Godbersen
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Image of Ovid
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
- Ovid
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Image of Plutarch
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.
- Plutarch
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Image of Ambrose Bierce
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Image of Plutarch
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
- Plutarch
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Image of Martial
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
- Martial
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Image of Ouida
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
- Ouida
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