Francis Bacon Quotes, Envy Quotes, Affection Quotes

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

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This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

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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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Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

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Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

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We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.

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We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

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Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

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Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

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Genius involves both envy and calumny.

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.

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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

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