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Envy is an insult to oneself.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
Author:
Vittorio Sica
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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Author:
Jim Rohn
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Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
Author:
Chi Rodriguez
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
Author:
Charley Reese
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
Author:
Charles Peirce
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Envy aims very high.
Author:
Ovid
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I envy the dead.
Author:
William Mulholland
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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.
Author:
Karl Menninger
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Author:
Titus Livius
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Author:
Horace
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
Author:
John Gay
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Author:
Joseph Epstein
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On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.
Author:
Griffin Dunne
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The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.
Author:
Jerry Costello
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Author:
Charles Churchill
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Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
Author:
Arthur Brooks
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By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
Author:
George Bancroft
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
Author:
Philip Bailey
