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  1. 1

    Envy aims very high.

    Ovid
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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
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    Envy and wrath shorten the life. -- Ecclesiasticus

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    Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.

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    Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

    Ovid
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    Envy is honors foe.

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    Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

    François de La Rochefoucauld
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    Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

    John Gay
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    He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

    Aeschylus
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    He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

    Horace
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    His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

    Samuel Johnson
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    How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

    Herodotus
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    I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

    Cicero
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    It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

    François de La Rochefoucauld
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    Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

    Thomas Browne
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    Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

    Mark Twain
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    Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

    Francis Bacon
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  20. 20

    Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

    Thomas Fuller M.D.
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  21. 21

    Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

    William Shakespeare
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  22. 22

    Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

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    Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

    Henry Fielding
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    The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

    John Berger
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    The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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