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Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.
Frank Tyger
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Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach.
James Thomson (1)
Quotes , Source: Seasons--Spring (l. 28)
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
Oscar Levant
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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell
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Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
Karen Brademeyer
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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas C. Haliburton
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With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Rosciad (l. 127)
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Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
[Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare quies.]
Claudian (Claudianus)
Quotes , Source: De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 290)
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Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another.
John Gay
Quotes , Source: Fables-The Elephant and the Bookseller (pt. I, fable 10, l. 74)
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Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
John Gay
Quotes , Source: The Hound and the Huntsman
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Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
George Herbert
Quotes , Source: The Church--Church Porch (st. 44)
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The artist envies what the arties gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
Hesiod
Quotes , Source: Works and Days (bk. I, l. 43)
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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than
envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
[Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;
Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni
Majus tormentus.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Epistles (I, 2, 57)
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If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be
regarded as envious and ill-natured?
[Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus
Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax
videar?]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Satires (I, 4, 91)
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Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (VIII, 31)
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No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
[Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (XXXVIII, 49)
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