Envy Quotes - Page 26

• The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.

  Publilius Syrus

  Laughing, Brave, Fortunate

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• To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Circles, Bitter, Traveler

  "Night Lights: Bedtime Stories for Parents in the Dark". Book by Phyllis Grissim-Theroux, 1987.

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• We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Sleep, Hatred, World

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• Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.

  Pliny the Elder

  Inferiority, Conscious

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• Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

  William Lilly

  Ambition, Blood, Two

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• The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it lodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding.

  Philip Sidney

  House, Inward, Palaces

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• It was there [Dijon], I now understand, that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be. It was there that I learned it is blessed to receive, as well as that every human being, no matter how base, is worthy of my respect and even my envy because he knows something that I may never be old or wise or kind or tender enough to know.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wise, Growing Up, Blessed

  M.F.K. Fisher (1992). “Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

  Pietro Metastasio

  Grief, Men, Pity

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• Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

  Richard Whately

  Feelings, Looks, Hardest

  Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.247

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• When any person of really eminent virtue becomes the object of envy, the clamor and abuse by which he is assailed is but the sign and accompaniment of his success in doing service to the public. And if he is a truly wise man, he will take no more notice of it than the moon does of the howling of the dogs. Her only answer to them is to shine on.

  Richard Whately

  Wise, Dog, Moon

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.99

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• Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

  Livy

  Clever, Blind, Virtue

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• I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Hands, Ink, Mouths

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• Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth covered phantom watching the years flow by Why envy people with clever ways of living?

  Hanshan

  Clever, Hair, Years

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• Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Thinking, Bears

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• Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hatred, Incapable, Reconciliation

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• The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Secret, Applause

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• For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

  Thucydides

  Men, Long, Action

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten
  here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.

  Thucydides

  Simplicity, Hatred, Forever

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• Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Desire, Unsuccessful, Consuming

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

  Herodotus

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

  John S. Watson

  Struggle, World, Economic

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• Envy-Thy art blindness

  Aftab Alam

  Art, Blindness

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• To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Self, Examination, Complacency

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• In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter envies potter, and the carpenter the carpenter, and the beggar rivals the beggar, and the singer the singer.

  Hesiod

  Men, Race, Trying

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