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• Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Justice, Mixtures

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Competition, Ancient, Praise

  'Leviathan' (1651) 'A Review and Conclusion'

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• I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Sunset, Vacation, People

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• The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Spiritual

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

  Lope de Vega

  Life, Flower, Book

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• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Crucifixion Of Christ, Sin

  Waiting on God Letter 4 (1950)

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• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  Xunzi

  Faith, Loyalty, Hate

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• The envious will die, but envy never.

  Moliere

  Envious, Dies

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Tartuffe (1664), V, 3, 1922.

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• If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, Optimistic

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• If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.

  Charley Reese

  Jealousy, Hate, Would Be

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• Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Successful, Careers, Might

  "Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all" by Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Gossip, Criticism

  Fear of Flying ch. 6 (1973)

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• Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Jealousy

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• All envy is proportionate to desire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Desire

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.117

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• Let’s face it: There are people who won’t be happy when you get too blessed. There are people who feel threatened by your success. There are people who, out of envy, will just not like you anymore.

  Bo Sanchez

  Blessed, People, Faces

  BO SANCHEz “Enjoy Your Age!: How to Claim the Blessings of Your Season”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Fire, Circles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Jealousy, Blind

  Lawrence Durrell (1957). “Justine: By Lawrence Durrell”

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• Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

  Samuel Johnson

  Jealousy, Your Jealous, Envied

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.128

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• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

  Alexander Pope

  Shadow, Substance, Shade

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.154, Delphi Classics

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• Love that is fed by jealousy dies hard.

  Ovid

  Life, Jealousy, Feds

  Ovid (1932). “The Love Books of Ovid”, p.216, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might 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.

  David Benioff

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  "Troy". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Envy is human nature.

  Monica Bellucci

  Human Nature, Humans

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• When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Vices, Virtue

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Jealousy, Gossip, Criticism

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Manners, Persons, No Love

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