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• Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

  Jeremy Collier

  Despair, Arms, Cold

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• I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Passion, Hatred, Lines

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• The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complain of divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to see others having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun, that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars, and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fun, Pain, Insecure

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• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

  Martin Amis

  Pride, Boredom, Insecurity

  Martin Amis (1981). “Other people: a mystery story”, Jonathan Cape

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• They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Looks, Wealth

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.14, Random House

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• Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

  Margaret George

  Shadow, Sides, Compare

  Margaret George (2011). “The Autobiography Of Henry VIII”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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• Envy suggests inferiority.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Inferiority

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• Envy is the religion of the mediocre

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mediocre

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• Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Hallmark, Knows

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.274, Hamilton Books

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• Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Children, Bird, Adults

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• It is better to arouse envy than pity.

  Publilius Syrus

  Writing, Pity

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• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Two, Political, Revolutionary

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Laughter

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• The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Pride, Mind

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• Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

  George Washington

  Passion, Brilliant, Reason

  George Washington (2010). “George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, People, Soul

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

  Imelda Staunton

  Looks, Exotic, World

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• Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned

  Roger Waters

  Hopeful

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• I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Bird, Tails

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• Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!

  Octavius Winslow

  Love, God, Christian

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• Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inferiority, Declaration

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• Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

  Criss Jami

  Insecurity, Longing, Envied

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Confused, Ambition

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• It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why this writer could not possibly like that one, would indeed consider him a menace. Literature is a battleground of conflicting faiths, and nobler passions than envy are involved.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Reading, Passion, Rumination

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Envy does not allow humanity to sleep.

  Carl Jung

  Sleep, Humanity, Doe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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