Alain de Botton Quotes, Envy Quotes, Groups Quotes

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 is as evil a thing as arrogance.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue

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the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

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There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

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Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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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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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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

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Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]

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Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]

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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.

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

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There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

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

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