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• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

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• I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.

  Roman Polanski

  Satisfaction, Has Beens, I Can

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

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• The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

  Breyten Breytenbach

  America, Goal, Ungrateful

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• My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Kings, Offending

  Horatio Nelson's letter to his mistress Lady Hamilton, 1800.

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• Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

  John Vianney

  Children, Hate, Pride

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• The envious will die, but envy never.

  Moliere

  Envy, Dies

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Tartuffe (1664), V, 3, 1922.

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• An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.

  William Shakespeare

  Fever, Emulation, Pale

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 129

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• Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

  Socrates

  Envy, Soul, Ulcers

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• The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Thinking, Break A Leg

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• Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Jealous, Good Work, Feels

  "Oscar knight". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2006.

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• There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Envy, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge

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• Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.

  Bel Kaufman

  Laughter, Sadness, Laughing

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• The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Envy, Praise, Censure

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.246

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• The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Merit, Praise, Mark

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• No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Envy, Virtue, Conscious

  Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.128

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• You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

  Stephen Jeffreys

  Stupid, Fall, Years

  "The Libertine". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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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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• To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Blind, Strikes

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.56, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

  Thomas Nagel

  Conceited, Psychology, May

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Memories, Simple

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• The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

  Criss Jami

  Ego Problem, Challenges, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Regret, Hate, Grief

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

  Imagawa Sadayo

  War, Deeds, Unjust

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• Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Eye, Men

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• Even success softens not the heart of the envious.

  Pindar

  Success, Heart, Achievement

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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