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• Envy derives from insecurity.

  Igor Babailov

  Insecurity

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• We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

  Pliny the Elder

  Passion, Inferiority, Appearance

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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

  Praise, Envious, Censure

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

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• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Joy, Inward

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• Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing.

  Pythagoras

  Good Things, Destruction, Malice

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• Envy is a weed that grows in all soils and climates, and is no less luxuriant in the country than in the court; is not confined to any rank of men or extent of fortune, but rages in the breasts of all degrees.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Country, Weed, Men

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• Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
  Ascending still against the fortunate.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Ascending, Lows, Estates

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  I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

  Joe Orton

  Body, Fifteen, Familiar

  Entertaining Mr. Sloane act 1 (1964)

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• Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Ambition, Luxury

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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, Feelings, Moral

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

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• It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Order, May, Curious

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• Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Hatred, Vices

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, May, Glory

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  Antisthenes

  Jealousy, Anger, Passion

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 5)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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  The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Jealousy, Winning, Envious

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• Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Jealousy, Catholic, Genius

  "Walk with God".

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• The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Being Single, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.447, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

  William Shenstone

  Jealousy, Envious, Apprehension

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.137

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• Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

  Thornton Wilder

  Home, Pride, Avarice Greed

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• He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Animal, Men

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• Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

  Charles Churchill

  Raises, Censure

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• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  Madame Roland

  Reading, Years, Triumph

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• Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Courage, Ignorance

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• Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Biting, Rage, Envied

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, De Raptu Proserpinæ, III. 290, 1922.

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• No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.

  William Shakespeare

  Half, Bears, Keenness

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1257, Oxford University Press

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