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Published Saturday, August 20, 2016 @ 7:05 PM EDT
Aug 20 2016

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
-William Arthur Ward

Don't expect praise without envy, until you're dead.
-Joan Rivers

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

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
-Angus Wilson

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
-Harold Coffin

Envy is the basis of democracy.
-Bertrand Russell

Envy is the central fact of American life.
-Gore Vidal

Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
-Erich Fromm

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse; envy alone wants both. Other sins last but for awhile; the gut may be satisfied, anger remits, hatred hath an end, envy never ceaseth.
-Robert Burton

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
-Petrarch

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy- I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
-Charley Reese

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
-Aeschylus

Like Satan, envy doesn't want us to know it exists.
-Christopher Manion

Malice and envy are but two branches growing out of the same bitter root. Self-love and evil-speaking are the fruit they hear. Malice is properly the procuring or wishing another's evil; envy, the repining at his good. And these vent themselves by evil-speaking.
-Robert Leighton

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
-Charles Bukowski

The envious will die, but envy never.
-Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
-Margaret Thatcher

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
-Erich Fromm

Unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealousy and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.
-Dale Carnegie

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
-Henry Fielding


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