Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
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.
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.
I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Far less envy in America than in France.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
The humble live in continuous peace, while in the hearts of the proud are envy and frequent anger.
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.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
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.
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.
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.
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.
I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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