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• Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

  Aristotle

  Jealousy, Men, Envy

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• Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Envy, Pay, Distinction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.202, Harvard University Press

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• All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, Envy, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.31

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

  Ovid

  Death, Men, Envy

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• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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• Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

  Jennifer James

  Jealousy, Pain, Envy

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Men

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• The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

  Socrates

  Philosophical, Envy, Neighbor

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• The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Jealousy, Envy

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• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Jealousy, Envy

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.188

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• It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

  Publilius Syrus

  Successful, Men, Enemy

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• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fitness, Flower, Health

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.120

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• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Heaven, Hell, Envious

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• The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Littles, Wealth, Rich

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.106

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• The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Rich, Poor

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• Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Stupid, Envy

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• I anticipate the day when to command respect in the remotest regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American. Our flag shall then wave in glory over the ocean and our commerce feel no restraint but what our own government may impose. Happy thrice happy day. Thank God, to reach this envied state we need only to will. Yes my countrymen. Our destiny depends on our will. But if we would stand high on the record of time that will must be inflexible.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Ocean, Destiny, Government

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• Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

  Socrates

  Envy, Soul, Ulcers

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• I had friends who ran off to become ski instructors or worked in cool bars, and I often envied them, but I know I'd quickly become bored with that kind of life. I always need to push myself.

  Douglas Booth

  Bored, Needs, Bars

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

  Herodotus

  Envy

  Herodotus (1875). “The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Illustrating the History and Geography of Herodotus, from the Most Recent Sources of Information; and Embodying the Chief Results, Historical and Ethnographical, which Have Been Obtained in the Progress of Cuneiform and Hieroglyphical Discovery”, p.372

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• He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Drama, Vegetables, Humans

  Emile M. Cioran (1970). “The fall into time”, Crown

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• The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Mean, Judging

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.45, St. Martin's Press

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• He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

  Horace

  Love, Envy

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Envy, Emulation, Capacity

  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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• I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

  Beck

  People, Collaboration, Band

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2010.

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