"Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended."
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"The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."
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"We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter."
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"You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess."
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"All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage."
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"When you make it a strong habit not to take anything personally, you avoid many upsets in your life. Your anger, jealousy, and envy will disappear, and even your sadness will simply disappear if you don't take things personally."
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"Envy bestrides praise."
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"Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'."
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"For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich."
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"With fame, in just proportion, envy grows."
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"O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!"
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"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."
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"God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play."
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"Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues."
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"I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown."
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"Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!"
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"envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it."
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"Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism."
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"The unenvied man is not enviable."
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"In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him."
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