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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.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

Fuller, Thomas

Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

Harper, Ralph

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Bacon, Francis

Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself.

Proverb, Danish

Envy eats nothing, but its own heart.

Proverb, German

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

Berger, John

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herodotus

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

Horace

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Antisthenes

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

Ovid

It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Hogarth, William

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

Shakespeare, William

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of ones fellow man.

Marx, Groucho

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Aeschylus

Envy aims very high.

Ovid

They that envy others are their inferiors.

Saying

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

Gay, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Envy and wrath shorten the life. [Ecclesiasticus]

Bible

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Socrates

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Vidal, Gore

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Envy is honors foe.

Motto

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.

Hazlitt, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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