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• Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

  Joseph Epstein

  Fun, Sin, Seven

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• Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Jealousy, Heart

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill on the Floss: Top Novelist Focus”, p.394, 谷月社

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• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Eye, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. [48]

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• The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Life, Family

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Causes, Unhappiness

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Earth, Satisfaction

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Sports, Past, Fool

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• Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Pain, Mean

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.120, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Book, Wish, Seven Deadly Sins

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• Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

  Charles Churchill

  Criticism, Resentment, Whim

  'The Candidate' (1764) l. 57

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• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Illegal Things, Wish, Criminals

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• Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

  Jennifer James

  Jealousy, Pain, Remember

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

  Alexander Pope

  Shade, Merit, Dignity

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, People, World

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• All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

  William Hogarth

  Judging, World, Critics

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• No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

  Livy

  Men, Levels, Likes

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Annales, XXXVIII. 49, 1922.

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• Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Victory, Spy, Looks

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.436

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• Surely, if we considered detraction to be bred of envy, nested only in deficient minds, we should find that the applauding of virtue would win us far more honor than the seeking slyly to disparage it. That would show we loved what we commended, while this tells the world we grudge at what we want in ourselves.

  Owen Feltham

  Winning, Honor, Mind

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.114

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• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  Tacitus

  Men, Be Good, Disparaging

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• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Gossip, Judging

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

  Francis Beaumont

  Running, Fruit, Literature

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• Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

  John Berger

  Emotion, Common, Glamour

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger (p. 148), 1972.

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• God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love, Judging, Hatred

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Jealousy, Loneliness, Feeling Alone

  House in Paris (1935) pt. 2, ch. 8

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• To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Sacrifice, Venture, Kind

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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