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When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.
I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.
You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
With that malignant envy which turns pale, And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
I don't envy the job of people who have to watch five movies a day - that's insane.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.