Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed."
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Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"Envy is a declaration of inferiority."
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"Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."
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"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion."
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"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish"
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"Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions."
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"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."
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"The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring."
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"The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder."
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"We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."
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"No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy."
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"How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!"
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."
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"A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors."
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"Envy has been, is, and shall be, the destruction of many. What is there, that Envy hath not defamed, or Malice left undefiled? Truly, no good thing."
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"I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?"
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"It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him."
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"Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape."
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"School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity."
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"You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!"
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"Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow."
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"Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?"
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