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Envy quotes (18) Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope. Josh Billings Category: Envy The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy. François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Category: Envy The grass is always greener on the other side. Proverb Category: Envy Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions like as fire eateth up and burneth wood. Prophet Muhammad Category: Envy The things which belong to others please us more And that which is ours is more pleasing to others. Publilius Syrus Category: Envy Attribute not the good actions of another to bad causes: thou canst not know his heart; but the world will know by this that thine is full of envy. Akhenaton Category: Envy PAIN n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body or may be purely mental caused by the good fortune of another. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Category: Envy But O how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! William Shakespeare Category: Envy Envy is the adversary of the fortunate. Epictetus Category: Envy It is the eyes of other people that ruin us. If all but myself were blind I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture. Benjamin Franklin Category: Envy As iron is eaten away by rust so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Antisthenes Category: Envy Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it or will Admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both. Robert Burton Category: Envy If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener ... it must be all the fertilizer they are using. Kevin Rodowicz Category: Envy Envy is like a fly that passes all a bodys sounder parts And dwells upon the sores. George Chapman Category: Envy Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already. Of the things you have select the best: and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if you did not have them. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Category: Envy The covetous man is ever in want. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace Category: Envy Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal Category: Envy When men are full of envy they disparage everything whether it be good or bad. Publius Cornelius Tacitus Category: Envy |
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