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• Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

  Ovid

  Vices, Creeps, Serpent

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• The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

  Brad Pitt

  Life, Beautiful, May

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• Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

  William Hazlitt

  Jealousy, Space, Soul

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Garden

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

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• Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Fake, Satisfaction

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.76, Ignatius Press

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• Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

  Socrates

  Soul, Ulcers, Envious

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• Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

  Austin O'Malley

  Gun, Locks, Flare

  "Keystones of Thought". Book by Austin O'Malley, 1914.

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• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

  Susan Sontag

  People, Attention, Paranoid

  1992 In Time Out,19 Aug.

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• Far less envy in America than in France.

  Stendhal

  America, France, Wit

  "On Love".

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Suicide, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Honor

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• Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

  Ovid

  Jealousy, Wind, Howl

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• ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Emulation, Capacity, Adapted

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.75, e-artnow

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• The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Christian, Heart, Humble

  Thomas A'Kempis (2004). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.8, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

  Dorothy Day

  Life, Forgiveness, Weed

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• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  Abraham Cahan

  Heart, Fighting, Feelings

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

  Heinrich Heine

  People, Elements, Literature

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Feels, Savour, Schadenfreude

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• And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that it contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by the least in Heaven, would have no weight that could be registered at all. Bad cannot succeed even in being bad as truly as good is good.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loneliness, Hatred, Joy

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• Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them.

  Ellen Langer

  Wise, Perspective, Stealing

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• Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Justice, Political, Social

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Reflection, Achievement, Atheism

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• I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Country, Giving

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• Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Peace

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