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 | "As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their
own passion." | |
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Antisthenes
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| "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." | |
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Akhenaton
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| "But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through
another man?s eyes!" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Envy is like a fly that passes all a body"s sounder parts, And
dwells upon the sores." | |
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George Chapman
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| "Envy is the adversary of the fortunate." | |
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Epictetus
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| "Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will Admit of
an excuse: envy alone wants both." | |
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Robert Burton
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| "If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener ... it
must be all the fertilizer they are using." | |
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Kevin Rodowicz
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| "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." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good
actions, like as fire eateth up and burneth wood." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "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." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "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." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "The covetous man is ever in want." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "The grass is always greener on the other side." | |
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Proverb
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| "The things which belong to others please us more, And that which is
ours, is more pleasing to others." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born
without envy." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be
good or bad." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies." | |
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Gore Vidal
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