I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Ronald Reagan
1. "The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia
2. "Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief."
Franz Grillparzer, "Poems"
Other categories: Anger
3. "I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading."
Zach Braff
4. "To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."
Françoise Sagan, "La Chamade"
5. "Happiness is a hard master — particularly other people’s happiness."
Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"
Other categories: Happiness
6. "Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity."
Margaret Mead
Other categories: Love
7. "Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
8. "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
Jules Renard
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame
9. "Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores."
Arthur Chapman
10. "The only person worth envying is he person who doesn't envy."
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11. "Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want."
Robert Bringle
Other categories: Work and Laziness
12. "Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him."
Bible
Other categories: Sin and Conscience
13. "I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."
Oscar Levant
Other categories: Health and Alcohol
14. "It is better to be envied than pitied."
Herodotus
15. "Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice"."
Thomas Sowell
16. "What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins."
Gene Fowler
Other categories: Success and Fame
17. "In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."
Ivan Illich, "Tools for Conviviality"
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
18. "Blowing out another's candle will not make yours shine brighter."
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19. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
Gore Vidal
Other categories: Success and Fame
20. "Envy is the basis of democracy."
Bertrand Russell, "Conquest of Happiness"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
21. "Wisdom is more to be envied than riches."
English proverb
Other categories: Richness and Money -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
22. "Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Other categories: Happiness
23. "Envy is a thousand times worse than hunger, since it is hunger of the spirit."
Miguel de Unamuno
24. "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean."
Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"
Other categories: Richness and Money
25. "Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied."
Mark Twain
Other categories: Love
26. "Congratulation, n. The civility of envy."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
27. "Jealousy is always born with love but does not always die with it."
François de La Rochefoucauld
28. "Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Marriage
29. "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."
Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"
Other categories: Forgiveness
30. "In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Egoism
31. "Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope."
Josh Billings
Other categories: Love
32. "Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I"."
Alexis de Tocqueville
33. "Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
Socrates
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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