Alain de Botton Quotes, Class Quotes, Envy Quotes

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

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The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

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There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

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To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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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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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.

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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?

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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

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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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Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?

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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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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!

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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

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Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.

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In the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

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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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Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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