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Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.
We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.
There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.
In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.
This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.
People may show jealousy, but hide their envy.
There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.
He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.
My heart laments that virtue cannot live Out of the teeth of emulation.
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy.
Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.
Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.