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• The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.

  Chanakya

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Men

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• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Fire, Circles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

  Baltasar Gracian

  Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

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• Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

  Walter Lippmann

  Love, Lovers, Love Each Other

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.308, Transaction Publishers

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• Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

  James Salter

  Children, Real, Drunk

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.300, Vintage

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• The happiness of being envied is glamour.
  Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.

  John Berger

  Envy, Reassurance, Illusion

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• I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.

  Mehdi Dibaj

  Christian, Jesus, Giving

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

  Ovid

  Jealousy, Wind, Envy

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• Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jealousy, Heart, Envy

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• There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflec.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, Two, Differences

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.133

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• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

  Irving Layton

  Want, Neighbor

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

  "THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN".

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• Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Envy, Biting, Rage

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, De Raptu Proserpinæ, III. 290, 1922.

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  It is better to be envied than pitied.

  Herodotus

  Envy

  Herodotus (1829). “Herodotus: Tr. from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes”, p.212

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• What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.

  Ally Carter

  Simple, Voice, Joy

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• Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

  Thomas Sowell

  Rights, Water, Arbitrary

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• Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop
  as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are
  ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected
  grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you
  encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE
  UP! NEVER RETREAT!

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Lying, Grief

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• It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

  Kenneth Williams

  Writing, Hypnosis, Coward

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Poet, Should

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.114, Criss Jami

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• In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, Land, Excellence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Men, Romance

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

  Luke Wilson

  Real, Mean, Play

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• My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

  Horatio Nelson

  Character, Names, Horatio

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

  Elia Kazan

  Successful, Gossip, Made

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• He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fate, Soul, Age

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